{"id":883,"date":"2020-02-21T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:08:16","slug":"52-word-review-gideon-the-ninth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/52-word-review-gideon-the-ninth\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Word Review: Gideon the Ninth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publishing.tor.com\/gideontheninth-tamsynmuir\/9781250313195\/\">Gideon the Ninth<\/a> is an anachronistic blend of murder mystery and adventure that has a confident lack of genre boundaries.  The writing is fast-paced despite suffering from adjective overload and the dialogue is shamelessly and endearingly snarky.  The unwieldy cast and clueless twists are redeemed by an exciting, vivid and satisfying ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon the Ninth is an anachronistic blend of murder mystery and adventure that has a confident lack of genre boundaries. The writing is fast-paced despite suffering from adjective overload and the dialogue is shamelessly and endearingly snarky. The unwieldy cast and clueless twists are redeemed by an exciting, vivid and satisfying ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-reviews-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1552728844.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}