{"id":10957,"date":"2018-07-23T18:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2024-01-21T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T15:16:30","slug":"frost-burned-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10957","title":{"rendered":"Frost Burned, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LJeOjl\"><em>Frost Burned<\/em>, Audio Edition<\/a> (2013) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/briggsp.php\">Patricia Briggs<\/a> narrated by Lorelei King <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LJeOjl\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/frost_burned-e1511050167331.jpg?resize=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5853\" \/><\/a>This wasn&#8217;t one of my favorite Mercy stories, although I still like Ben&#8217;s continued climb from being a complete jerk to someone who remains troubled but is trying to become a decent human.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly I think it&#8217;s the vampires that are the problem here. I like the end fight, but the whole thing seems to have come out of left field. I don&#8217;t really get why families were targeted, except to add to the drama. And I&#8217;m not sure about Gabriel&#8217;s mother being so accepting of everything that happens&#8211;considering that her girls were in far greater danger here than they were from Samuel (which was her main point of contention, although the men with guns didn&#8217;t help I&#8217;m sure).<\/p>\n<p>So, some weaknesses. But I still am super irritated that they library doesn&#8217;t have the next two books as audio, and so I have to read them. (Mostly this is because I&#8217;ll have to figure out sooner what I want to listen to next.)<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Penguin Audio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frost Burned, Audio Edition (2013) Patricia Briggs narrated by Lorelei King This wasn&#8217;t one of my favorite Mercy stories, although I still like Ben&#8217;s continued climb from being a complete jerk to someone who remains troubled but is trying to become a decent human. Mostly I think it&#8217;s the vampires that are the problem here. 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Gold ones.\u201d \u201cI expect she\u2019s trying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio Book","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/audio-book"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rivermarked-e1511048838479.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}