{"id":1456,"date":"2017-04-28T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2017-05-03T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:20:43","slug":"bloodline-by-claudia-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Bloodline by Claudia Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/17008773\/summary\/141175904\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>\n<img style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" \nsrc=\"https:\/\/pics.librarything.com\/picsizes\/97\/f8\/97f88ca6e81b971596d45506d51434f414f4141.jpg\" \nalt=\"Bloodline by Claudia Gray\" width=\"136\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a story of Princess Leia&#8217;s political life.  The New Republic is facing new threats from within, the Centrists, a political party wanting to increase control over the galaxy in the name of preserving peace, have created a new role of First Senator.  This person has much increased power and my be one step away from another emperor.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the political issue, Leia is investigating an underground military buildup.  But no one believes it is possible.  With the help of a Centrist, Ransom Casterfo, they travel across the galaxy to try to find proof of the existence of this army.  <\/p>\n<p>I found Ransom to be an interesting and complex character.  On his first meeting with Leia, he comes across as an Empire apologist.  This created a lot of tension between them.  Yet his complexities reveal another side to him which warrants sympathy.  <\/p>\n<p>I listed to the audio version of this book.  I found January LaVoy to be a good reader, and Random House has done a good job in the production.  They have provided good background sounds that really enhance the book experience.  <\/p>\n<p>even though neither the political situation nor the military situation reach resolution, the book has good characters and interesting situations.  It calls for a sequel.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story of Princess Leia&#8217;s political life. The New Republic is facing new threats from within, the Centrists, a political party wanting to increase control over the galaxy in the name of preserving peace, have created a new role of First Senator. This person has much increased power and my be one step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[89,90],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-series","tag-claudia-gray","tag-january-lavoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}