{"id":2946,"date":"2012-05-06T19:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2012-05-06T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:25:35","slug":"first-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2946","title":{"rendered":"First Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00564ON7G\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00564ON7G\">First Frost<\/a><\/em> (2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/estep_jennifer.php\">Jennifer Estep<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00564ON7G\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00564ON7G\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/first-frost.jpg?resize=73%2C110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"first-frost\" width=\"73\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2947\" \/><\/a>Gwen Frost has a Gypsy gift&#8211;when she touches things she learns about the people who held those items. In addition to that skill, she has a good dose of curiosity, that eventually shows her things she never wanted to learn.<\/p>\n<p>This is a short story, and an introduction to <em>Touch of Frost<\/em>, the first book in the Mythos Academy series.<\/p>\n<p>If you like YA, this is a good story to check out, to tell you if you&#8217;ll like the series. It&#8217;s self-contained, which is always good in a short story, but it did lead me to immediately start the first book. Just one more reason to love eBooks.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Kensington Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Frost (2011) Jennifer Estep Gwen Frost has a Gypsy gift&#8211;when she touches things she learns about the people who held those items. In addition to that skill, she has a good dose of curiosity, that eventually shows her things she never wanted to learn. This is a short story, and an introduction to Touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,35,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-short-story","category-supernatural","category-young-adult"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-Lw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3002,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3002","url_meta":{"origin":2946,"position":0},"title":"Kiss of Frost","author":"Michelle","date":"June 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Kiss of Frost (2011) Jennifer Estep Gwen is now mostly settled into the Mythos Academy. 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