{"id":242,"date":"2008-07-09T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2010-03-29T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:57:09","slug":"accidental-goddess-linnea-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/accidental-goddess-linnea-sinclair\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Goddess (Linnea Sinclair)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Romantic Si-Fi, 5\/10 &#8211; July 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/accidentalGoddess.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nQuite a ridiculous book, my first (and hopefully last) romantic si-fi. Even if the story wasn&#8217;t great I still find futuristic things interesting because they make me dream. For example, her ship, SIMON (Sentient Integrated MObile Nanoessence) is like a futuristic brain embedded Google. This kind of book is brain candy for me, nice but no good for me.<br \/>\nThe book isn&#8217;t just sci-fi, it also has a touch of Fantasy e.g. mageline sorceress. I&#8217;m not sure I like the si-fi\/fantasy mix. I like the science in sc-fi to make as much sense as possible.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Is being a goddess by accident funny\/interesting? Maybe a little funny for example her drunken bar-crawl ramblings have become like religions commandments but the fallout from the &#8216;revelation&#8217; of the &#8216;goddess&#8217;s&#8217; true nature is never explored properly so it makes the whole thing a bit pointless? A further weakness is the ending, there&#8217;s almost no show down at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romantic Si-Fi, 5\/10 &#8211; July 2008 Quite a ridiculous book, my first (and hopefully last) romantic si-fi. Even if the story wasn&#8217;t great I still find futuristic things interesting because they make me dream. For example, her ship, SIMON (Sentient Integrated MObile Nanoessence) is like a futuristic brain embedded Google. This kind of book is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-sci-fi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}