{"id":27181,"date":"2026-06-07T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27181"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:31:17","slug":"lime-gelatin-and-other-monsters-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27181","title":{"rendered":"Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters<\/em> (2015) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Martinez_Angel.php\">Angel Martinez<\/a> (Offbeat Crimes, #1)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lime-Gelatin-and-Other-Monsters.jpg?resize=188%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lime-Gelatin-and-Other-Monsters.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lime-Gelatin-and-Other-Monsters.jpg?w=313&amp;ssl=1 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(T)he pink and neon-blue raven folded his wings and waddled over to snap at Carrington\u2019s pen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop it, Edgar.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t get laid at a clusterfuck!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t really do anything,\u201d Soren answered as he hefted the empty coffeepot. \u201cGuess I\u2019ll make fresh since I\u2019m the new guy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He opened the top to remove the filter and every human voice in the squad room yelled out, \u201cNo!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Most people would have startled, maybe dropped the carafe. Soren just blinked at the roomful of people gesturing wildly. He took the filter out and emptied it over the trashcan. \u201cWhy not?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to do that.\u201d Kyle stayed by his desk, a nice safe distance from the coffee station. \u201cThat\u2019s Larry\u2019s job.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarry\u2019s not keeping up then.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Between them, in the chair a suspect would take while he was being booked, was a leather jacket. Not odd if the jacket had behaved normally and stayed draped over a chair arm like a good, proper jacket, but this one was sitting up with the buckled strap on one sleeve cuffed to the chair arm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Kyle Monroe, Vikash Soren, Carrington Loveless III, Amanda Zacchini, Wolf, Krisk, Shira Lourdes, Greg Santos, Jeff Gatling, Vance Virago, Lieutenant Mia Dunfee, Edgar, Larry the ghost, Leather Jacket, Mrs. Morelli<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Pride Publishing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters (2015) Angel Martinez (Offbeat Crimes, #1) (T)he pink and neon-blue raven folded his wings and waddled over to snap at Carrington\u2019s pen. \u201cStop it, Edgar.\u201d \u201cYou couldn\u2019t get laid at a clusterfuck!\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t really do anything,\u201d Soren answered as he hefted the empty coffeepot. \u201cGuess I\u2019ll make fresh since [&hellip;]<\/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":[12,292,2,8,196,42,148,41,26,56,936,34],"tags":[179,50,544],"class_list":["post-27181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-novella","category-police","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-single-point-of-view","category-urban-fantasy","tag-angel-martinez","tag-boinking","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-74p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14301,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14301","url_meta":{"origin":27181,"position":0},"title":"Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters","author":"Michelle","date":"May 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters (2016) Angel Martinez (Offbeat Crimes) Between them, in the chair a suspect would take while he was being booked, was a leather jacket. 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