{"id":3284,"date":"2014-06-11T08:10:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2014\/06\/11\/3284\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T08:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:10:15","slug":"3284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=3284","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16180337%22\" style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px&quot;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/%22http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1386130399m\/16180337.jpg%22\" border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Forged in Death&quot; \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16180337%22\">Forged in Death<\/a> by <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/945032%22\">Jim Melvin<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/883236581%22\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I tried to like this book.  I really wanted to like this book.  I even have the next three in the series because they were on sale.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m incredibly peeved because I did not like this book!!!<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the first rule of writing that your protagonist must be flawed?  Well Torg, the Death Knower, has no flaws.  His skin is impenetrable.  He&#8217;s taller, more agile and knowledgeable than his people.  And he&#8217;s uber strong.  Sure, apparently he can&#8217;t call on his super power but once a year, but that certainly doesn&#8217;t make him weak.  If he had to have a flaw, it&#8217;s that his orgasm kills.  Really, it does.  But that sure as hell didn&#8217;t stop him from doing the deed twice in this book!<\/p>\n<p>Torg is a Mary Sue.  <\/p>\n<p>Invictus, one of many bad guys, makes an appearance in this novel, but it&#8217;s more like a blip.  And you&#8217;re told more than anything else that he&#8217;s a big bad.  I wasn&#8217;t impressed.  And I certainly don&#8217;t agree that one should wait till the next novel to see how really bad he is or whether Torg is flawed.  First novels should hook you in.  This one really doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I may read the second one just to see if it gets better.  <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/883236581%22\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forged in Death by Jim Melvin My rating: 2 of 5 stars I tried to like this book. I really wanted to like this book. I even have the next three in the series because they were on sale. So now I&#8217;m incredibly peeved because I did not like this book!!! Isn&#8217;t the first rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}