{"id":862,"date":"2015-03-17T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:32:13","slug":"review-the-spellmans-strike-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/review-the-spellmans-strike-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Spellmans Strike Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6571967\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1426476786m\/6571967.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Spellmans Strike Again\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6571967\">The Spellmans Strike Again<\/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\/1229976443\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I can\u2019t imagine that anyone who\u2019s read <i>The Spellman Files<\/i>, <i>Curse of the Spellmans<\/i>, and <i>Revenge of the Spellmans<\/i> won\u2019t wind up reading <i>The Spellmans Strike Again<\/i>. Nor can I imagine anyone deciding to start with this fourth novel before reading the others. So what they heck am I supposed to review here, exactly? Maybe someone\u2019s considering the entire series and reading reviews to make sure the books don\u2019t start great then go bad. Fine: that won\u2019t happen. What you get out of the first novels you\u2019ll get out if this one too.<\/p>\n<p>Hijinks and such. The same mish-mash of intertwining plots that don\u2019t really intertwine all that much. I\u2019ll say this: Lisa made me feel some of Izzy\u2019s emotions, especially frustration, more than before. I won\u2019t give it away to people who haven\u2019t read it, but: the file room incident? Morty? Yeah, I was more in touch with Isabel Spellman than in any of the previous novels.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes me wonder what I\u2019m going to get out of Spellman #5, which I\u2019m hoping to start reading later today. And I WILL read it. But will Rae be in it (of course she will be). What about the Unit (they will be too\u2014sometimes I think, as an author and therefor God of the Spellman fiction-verse, Lutz must somewhat identify with Olivia). Will Henry have more of a role?<\/p>\n<p>I could go on, but the point is: questions to be answered in the next review. I hope. Or not. <\/p>\n<p>If you take nothing else away from this \u201creview\u201d (finger quoted, Izzy, just for you) let it be this: read the first three books, and read this one too.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1229976443\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz My rating: 4 of 5 stars I can\u2019t imagine that anyone who\u2019s read The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, and Revenge of the Spellmans won\u2019t wind up reading The Spellmans Strike Again. Nor can I imagine anyone deciding to start with this fourth novel before reading the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/review-the-spellmans-strike-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Spellmans Strike Again&#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-862","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-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}