{"id":341,"date":"2009-08-31T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-11-10T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:15:32","slug":"new-moon-by-stephanie-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/08\/new-moon-by-stephanie-meyer.html","title":{"rendered":"New Moon by Stephanie Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as good as Twilight, though it was an even faster read if such a thing is possible.  I did 500+ pages in under 24 hours.  Not much brain chewing going on.  The trouble with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0316024961\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">New Moon<\/a> is that it didn&#8217;t have enough Edward.  I don&#8217;t have the antipathy for the protagonist that some people have, but she <i>is<\/i> a teenaged girl.  In other words: the least interesting thing on earth.  The backup love&#8211;werewolf Jake&#8211;is pretty hot too, but she&#8217;s not biting (ha ha).  Overall this book has the feeling of a setup for books to come.  The plot must advance.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, and perhaps Meyer will get to this, if Edward will still love Bella when she stops smelling so good, i.e. becomes a vampire too.  Why doesn&#8217;t Bella worry about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as good as Twilight, though it was an even faster read if such a thing is possible. I did 500+ pages in under 24 hours. Not much brain chewing going on. The trouble with New Moon is that it didn&#8217;t have enough Edward. I don&#8217;t have the antipathy for the protagonist that some people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,18],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-kids","category-scififantasy","tag-twilight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}