{"id":1784,"date":"2021-07-14T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2022-01-03T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T01:17:27","slug":"secondhand-spirits-by-juliet-blackwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B002AU7MS6.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"307\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was looking for a quick read and this caught my eye. It&#8217;s about a witch, Lily Ivory, who moves to San Francisco, partially to escape her life as a witch, and opens a  vintage clothing store. Lily begins an investigation into a missing girl, which relates to some paranormal events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is billed as a mystery. Although there really is no mystery involved. Lily knows the details pretty much from the onset, I think it&#8217;s more of a Fantasy\/Adventure with a lot of humor thrown in. Lily is constantly encountering odd characters with even more peculiar traits, each bringing a surprise turn to events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One, Brownwin, is a wikkan, becomes her business partner and provides an impetus to maintain her witchly ways. Another encounter involves a warlock who tricks her into taking a creature off his hands that becomes her familiar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The characters are fun, even if a bit flat. The story is fairly dynamic and often funny. I might try another in the series, I was hoping for more of a mystery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a quick read and this caught my eye. It&#8217;s about a witch, Lily Ivory, who moves to San Francisco, partially to escape her life as a witch, and opens a vintage clothing store. Lily begins an investigation into a missing girl, which relates to some paranormal events. The book is billed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[185,186],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","tag-juliet-blackwell","tag-witchcraft-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}