{"id":85,"date":"2007-04-12T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/12\/the-scent-of-shadows\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T16:51:59","slug":"the-scent-of-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"The Scent of Shadows &#8211; by Vicki Pettersson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/scentshadows1.gif\" title=\"scentshadows1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/scentshadows1.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"scentshadows1.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a book that centers on signs of the zodiac with &#8220;superheroes&#8221; attached to each one, this a surprisingly dark fantasy in which there is no guaranteed happy ending. The story&#8217;s heroine, Joanna Archer, (can you guess what her sign is?) has survived a brutal attack at age 16 and has spent the last few years becoming proficient at a unique form of martial arts and photographing the grittier, seedier underside of Las Vegas. On her 25th birthday, she finds herself introduced to a whole new world where Agents of Light battle their Shadow counterparts to protect both worlds. Joanna, much to her dismay, is recognized as a prophesied warrior made up of both Light and Shadow. This book grabs the reader and never lets go. Joanna is a wonderful mix of vulnerability and steely determination. Her fellow agents are your typical superheroes either. Warren, the leader, masquerades as a homeless man, and others are missing limbs. Be prepared for graphic violence however. This book is definitely not for the squeamish. The sequel: &#8220;Taste of Night&#8221; has just been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a book that centers on signs of the zodiac with &#8220;superheroes&#8221; attached to each one, this a surprisingly dark fantasy in which there is no guaranteed happy ending. The story&#8217;s heroine, Joanna Archer, (can you guess what her sign is?) has survived a brutal attack at age 16 and has spent the last few&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[71,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-1n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}