{"id":860,"date":"2015-02-25T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:32:14","slug":"review-revenge-of-the-spellmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/review-revenge-of-the-spellmans\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Revenge of the Spellmans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3545387\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1422920089m\/3545387.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Revenge of the Spellmans\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3545387\">Revenge 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\/1211405200\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I remember, once, someone complaining about a video game sequel that I\u2019d enjoyed, saying \u201cIt\u2019s just like the first one!.\u201d But I <i>liked<\/i> the first one, so, to me, the sequel was more of that goodness. So too with <i>Revenge of the Spellmans<\/i>. I don\u2019t feel like there\u2019s much more here than in the previous two novels, <i>The Spellman Files<\/i> and <i>Curse of the Spellmans<\/i>\u2014which I thoroughly enjoyed. And there\u2019s certainly no less in this third novel.<\/p>\n<p>(Here\u2019s a thought\u2014can I get away with writing the same review each time? Eh, probably not.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyyway, for those who are wondering, rest assured: here are the same old Spellmans. Mom is still manipulative, dad is still stubborn, brother is still aloof, sister is still uncontrollable, and main character is still a little bit off-kilter. Maybe not as much as in the previous two, but enough to keep the reader liking her.<\/p>\n<p>And, for what it\u2019s worth, Lutz introduces a few more characters to keep this cavalcade fun and immersive. There\u2019s the crush\u2019s new girlfriend, there\u2019s the bartender\u2019s cousin, there\u2019s an old foe come back to play havoc with&#8230; and more. <\/p>\n<p>So, as much as I\u2019m saying that <i>Revenge<\/i> is just like <i>Curse<\/i> and <i>Files<\/i>, the truth is you\u2019ll enjoy <i>Revenge<\/i> all the more if you read the other two first\u2014and despite extensive explanations, footnotes, and an appendix, you really do need to read the first two.<\/p>\n<p>And once you do read the first two, reading this third one is inexorable.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1211405200\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenge of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz My rating: 4 of 5 stars I remember, once, someone complaining about a video game sequel that I\u2019d enjoyed, saying \u201cIt\u2019s just like the first one!.\u201d But I liked the first one, so, to me, the sequel was more of that goodness. So too with Revenge of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/review-revenge-of-the-spellmans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Revenge 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-860","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-dS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}