{"id":858,"date":"2015-02-17T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T21:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:32:14","slug":"review-curse-of-the-spellmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/review-curse-of-the-spellmans\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Curse of the Spellmans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1590979\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1421179946m\/1590979.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Curse of the Spellmans\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1590979\">Curse of the Spellmans<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/74189\">Lisa Lutz<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1203603084\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <i>Curse of the Spellmans<\/i> had been waiting for me, patiently, as I crawled through a few other agonizingly slow reads. Here\u2019s how good it was when I finally got to it: 25 hours from page 1 to page 409, (meals, work, sleeping, but <i>no video games<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a fast reader, but I\u2019ll stick with a tome if I\u2019m enjoying myself. I thoroughly enjoyed <i>Curse of the Spellmans<\/i>. I knew I was going to read it as soon as I finished <i>The Spellman Files<\/i>, and as soon as I\u2019m done writing this review, I\u2019m finding the closest library and heading over there for the third in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Ignore the back of the book, where it says \u201cpart Bridget Jones, part Columbo.\u201d Nobody\u2019s into both, so it\u2019s only meant to be a surface-level comparison, and it\u2019s wrong.  Izzy Spellman\u2019s no stereotype, and these mysteries aren\u2019t so pat. They\u2019re fun, with enough of a serious edge to not come across as goofy or silly.<\/p>\n<p>Because otherwise, the people in Izzy\u2019s life comes across as goofy and silly. But in that way that your own friends and family do\u2014doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t respect them. Doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t have depth.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1203603084\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz My rating: 4 of 5 stars Curse of the Spellmans had been waiting for me, patiently, as I crawled through a few other agonizingly slow reads. Here\u2019s how good it was when I finally got to it: 25 hours from page 1 to page 409, (meals, work, sleeping, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/review-curse-of-the-spellmans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Curse of the Spellmans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-dQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}