{"id":3316,"date":"2024-12-31T20:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2024-12-31T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:21:28","slug":"review-starter-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3316","title":{"rendered":"Review: Starter Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Between <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1470\">Redshirts<\/a><\/em> and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3295\">Collapsing Empire<\/a><\/em> trilogy I&#8217;ve quote enjoyed the Scalzi I&#8217;ve read. <em>Starter Villain<\/em> was a good read as well.  I think it&#8217;s a lighter story than either of the others I mentioned, but it is great fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a sympathetic character thrown into a crazy scenario that pushes a ton of pop culture buttons and we never really stop to take a breath.  The dialog is snappy and we can pull for the good guys and hiss the villains with glee.  (Villain being a relative term here, I did see the title.)  There&#8217;s some earned warmth and a nice ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Redshirts and the Collapsing Empire trilogy I&#8217;ve quote enjoyed the Scalzi I&#8217;ve read. Starter Villain was a good read as well. I think it&#8217;s a lighter story than either of the others I mentioned, but it is great fun. We&#8217;ve got a sympathetic character thrown into a crazy scenario that pushes a ton of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}