{"id":1424,"date":"2016-08-18T02:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T02:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2016-08-18T02:28:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T02:28:27","slug":"book-bloodline-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/2016\/08\/18\/book-bloodline-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Bloodline (Star Wars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bloodline (Star Wars)<\/b> by Claudia Gray<\/p>\n<p><b>Summary<\/b> There was a time when the Star Wars franchise seemed left for dead.  Before the prequels, when there was no light on the horizon for any new movies, a time of no new hope for Star Wars fans.  At such a time one could forgive a kid like myself for getting a Star Wars hit off of some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Star_Wars_books\">cheap pulp<\/a> Star Wars &#8220;adult&#8221; novels.  Then came the prequels, which might as well have actually killed Star Wars, and then the roaring reboot of Episode 7.  Those old books were soon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page\">deprecated<\/a>.  With a new slate of movies in the works, one would think that there was no excuse to go back to the Star Wars &#8220;adult&#8221; novels.  But I have sinned, and I broke down, purchasing &#8220;Bloodline&#8221; under the premise that it is a book that is &#8220;loaded with context for The Force Awakens&#8221;.  I would know more than my friends about the context of the new episodes!  So well yeah, I guess the summary of the book is that you get some political back story on what must arise to become the First Order.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rating<\/b> Re-read the last sentence of the summary.  Maybe I&#8217;m older, but the novel felt very young adult and the characters thinly drawn.  Is this what it feels to outgrow Star Wars? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloodline (Star Wars) by Claudia Gray Summary There was a time when the Star Wars franchise seemed left for dead. Before the prequels, when there was no light on the horizon for any new movies, a time of no new hope for Star Wars fans. At such a time one could forgive a kid like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/2016\/08\/18\/book-bloodline-star-wars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: Bloodline (Star Wars)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/caelifera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}