{"id":1896,"date":"2018-04-28T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2018-12-18T22:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:04:02","slug":"smoke-eaters-by-sean-grigsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/smoke-eaters-by-sean-grigsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke Eaters by Sean Grigsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s obvious from the tiny details in Sean Grigsby&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2S6zFA8\">Smoke Eaters<\/a> that he is a professional firefighter (a fact that his bio confirm) and he puts that knowledge to good use in this fast-paced romp through a future US where dragons have emerged from the earth and destroyed all but a few city-states.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a breath of fresh air to see firefighters fighting dragons instead of knights (with both laser swords and lances, no less!). And it&#8217;s also a breath of fresh air to have a protagonist old enough to be my father leading the pack.<\/p>\n<p>If you liked <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ECRfZo\">Flex<\/a> by Ferrett Steinmetz, the pacing of the writing and the stubbornness of the protagonist will feel familiar&#8230; but not a big surprise since they&#8217;re both published by Angry Robot.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a romp of a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s obvious from the tiny details in Sean Grigsby&#8217;s book Smoke Eaters that he is a professional firefighter (a fact that his bio confirm) and he puts that knowledge to good use in this fast-paced romp through a future US where dragons have emerged from the earth and destroyed all but a few city-states. It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/smoke-eaters-by-sean-grigsby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smoke Eaters by Sean Grigsby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,22,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","tag-angry-robot-books","tag-ferrett-steinmetz","tag-flex","tag-sean-grigsby","tag-smoke-eaters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-uA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}