{"id":2056,"date":"2026-06-26T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:50:31","slug":"the-eye-of-the-bedlam-bride-by-matt-dinniman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/30446403\/book\/317041280\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/059395601X.01._SX600_SY1200_SCRM_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:238px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This episode started off ok but it felt like it really bogged down in the middle. I&#8217;m finding the fight scenes a bit boring, the new items and monsters just don&#8217;t seem enough, and there are so many of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book does build on the galactic politics and events, that is the books saving grace. It also really picks up in the final chapters, building a lot of questions to be answered in upcoming books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I almost wanted to rate it lower, but my final feelings after finishing were pretty positive, but I do think the book would have benefited by being shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode started off ok but it felt like it really bogged down in the middle. I&#8217;m finding the fight scenes a bit boring, the new items and monsters just don&#8217;t seem enough, and there are so many of them. The book does build on the galactic politics and events, that is the books saving [&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],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-matt-dinniman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}