{"id":620,"date":"2011-12-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=620"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T03:30:38","slug":"switched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/24\/switched\/","title":{"rendered":"Switched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Amanda Hocking<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Tor<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, December 24th 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The first in a trilogy (with the next two volumes to be published within months) <em>Switched<\/em> by Amanda Hocking is adolescent wish-fulfilment, pure and simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">All her life Wendy Every has never fitted in.\u00a0 Then, just before her 18<sup>th<\/sup> birthday the mysterious and charismatic boy Finn arrives to tell her the truth: she really a faerie princess from a tribe known as the Trylle, swapped at birth for a human child in order to benefit from the financial and educational resources provided by her hosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Now she is  is ready to return to her rightful place, but  Wendy feels no more part of this new, opulent life than she did in her old one.\u00a0 Everything she does or feels, from her friendship with the manskling Rhys to her increasing attraction to the enigmatic Finn, transgress the rules of Trylle society, and she longs to return to her human family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Like Stephanie Meyer, Hocking has hit on a formula that is likely to entrance teenage girls everywhere. It almost makes me wish I were 16 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Hocking<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review December 24th 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[126,149,370,18,407],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-126","tag-amanda-hocking","tag-fiction","tag-odt","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}