{"id":26379,"date":"2022-12-26T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T16:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26379"},"modified":"2022-12-26T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T16:18:31","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-killing-blow-by-kevin-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%93%9a-killing-blow-by-kevin-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Killing Blow by Kevin Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1381,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/89d217f1-ed65-450c-a37d-80e873472beb&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>64\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/89d217f1-ed65-450c-a37d-80e873472beb\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As with many mid-points of trilogies, not quite as strong as the first, though still better than average. Some flashback scenes are written in with the main narrative and occasionally mildly confusing when scenes switch between present and past battles, and there are a few unfortunate typos swapping similarly named characters. Once those are accounted for, though, a decent enough middle chapter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%93%9a-killing-blow-by-kevin-ryan\/57c9a5ee-5ec7-4bf1-837b-9c766c69482c\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57C9A5EE-5EC7-4BF1-837B-9C766C69482C-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding Killing Blow.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57C9A5EE-5EC7-4BF1-837B-9C766C69482C-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57C9A5EE-5EC7-4BF1-837B-9C766C69482C-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57C9A5EE-5EC7-4BF1-837B-9C766C69482C-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57C9A5EE-5EC7-4BF1-837B-9C766C69482C-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/57C9A5EE-5EC7-4BF1-837B-9C766C69482C-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite as strong as the first book in the trilogy, though still better than average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[4230,4229,4097],"class_list":["post-26379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-errand-of-vengeance","tag-kevin-ryan","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}