{"id":2952,"date":"2012-05-06T19:54:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:47:20","slug":"basilisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2952","title":{"rendered":"Basilisk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basilisk<\/a><\/em> (2011) Rob Thurman<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I know it’s strange for me, but I’ve had Basilisk<\/em> sitting around unread since last August. Strange, because I love Rob Thurman’s writing, and have loved every book of her’s I’ve read. But as much as I enjoyed Chimera<\/em>, I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about a sequel, so it sat unread until I grabbed it on the way to a doctor’s appointment.<\/p>\n

Then I got sucked in and had to finish it.<\/p>\n

Misha has spent the past three years learning to live outside The Institute where he was raised and lived until his brother Stefan rescued him. Now, instead of learning to kill, he is learning how to get along like a normal teenager, instead of the genetically altered killer he actually is. And it’s going pretty well, until they learn their father (a Russian mobster) had been found dead–murdered.<\/p>\n

Was he murdered as a result of being a mobster? Or was he murdered by someone wanting to find Michael.<\/p>\n

First and foremost, you CAN read this book without having read Chimera<\/em>. It is set up that way. But you really should read Chimera<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And yes, I still love Rob Thurman’s writing.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Roc <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Basilisk (2011) Rob Thurman I know it’s strange for me, but I’ve had Basilisk sitting around unread since last August. Strange, because I love Rob Thurman’s writing, and have loved every book of her’s I’ve read. 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