{"id":201,"date":"2011-02-08T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/?p=201"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:46:20","slug":"hold-me-closer-necromancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/02\/08\/hold-me-closer-necromancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin’s Pick of the Week: Hold Me Closer Necromancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m trying out a new feature on the website:\u00a0 reviews.\u00a0 Each week I will post about a young adult book that I particularly enjoyed.\u00a0 If you read something you want to share or want to write about a movie, a game, a cd, or anything else send me an email (edaly@cwmars.org), and next week it can be your review in this spot!<\/p>\n

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Sam LaCroix is nineteen, a college drop-out, a fast food worker, and a necromancer. He\u2019s only just found out this last thing. His mother hid it from him as an attempt to protect him from the likes of Douglas Montgomery, a powerful necromancer who either wants to make Sam his apprentice, or kill him and take his power.\u00a0 Sam has one week to decide.<\/p>\n

Over the course of this week he discovers the existence of all kinds of paranormal beings, gets captured by Douglas (and thrown in a cell with a fascinating were-hound girl), and must learn to use his powers to save himself, his friends and his family.<\/p>\n

This book is at turns scary, funny, and sweet.\u00a0 Sam is a likable protagonist, obviously under a lot of stress due to the recent discovery of his powers.\u00a0 He has close family and friends who support him and make for an amusing cast of side characters. Sam\u2019s romance in captivity with half-fey half-werewolf Brid, is sweet.\u00a0 A lot of magical elements in the book are introduced quickly, which has me hoping for a sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m trying out a new feature on the website:\u00a0 reviews.\u00a0 Each week I will post about a young adult book that I particularly enjoyed.\u00a0 If you read something you want to share or want to write about a movie, a game, a cd, or anything else send me an email (edaly@cwmars.org), and next week it … Continue reading “Erin’s Pick of the Week: Hold Me Closer Necromancer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pick-of-the-week-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}