{"id":13690,"date":"2020-12-21T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2022-08-14T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:59:50","slug":"new-game-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13690","title":{"rendered":"New Game, Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Game, Start<\/a><\/em> (2017) C.S. Poe<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is a perfectly fine story. I just feel like it needed to be a lot longer for what happened, because what did occur happened so fast it was almost out of left field. I mean, it took place over the course of a week–and during that week they both actually had to do other things besides chat.<\/p>\n

That’s just a lot for me to believe.<\/p>\n

So, it wasn’t bad, but I wish it had occurred over several weeks, or that the two had some connection prior.<\/p>\n

Publisher : Emporium Press; 2nd edition
\nRating: 6.5\/10
\n
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I mean, it took place over the course of a week–and during that week they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[292,148,26,56,35],"tags":[50,180,544],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebook","category-queer","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-short-story","tag-boinking","tag-c-s-poe","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3yO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20065,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20065","url_meta":{"origin":13690,"position":0},"title":"Kneading You","author":"Michelle","date":"June 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Kneading You (2016) C.S. 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