{"id":391,"date":"2022-05-19T19:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/?p=391"},"modified":"2022-05-19T19:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:12:20","slug":"book-review-the-crystal-void-by-john-houlihan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/book-review-the-crystal-void-by-john-houlihan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Crystal Void by John Houlihan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read &#8220;The Crystal Void&#8221; by John Houlihan.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-size-base review-text review-text-content\" data-hook=\"review-body\">This was a joy to read. If George MacDonald Fraser&#8217;s Harry Flashman series had an illegitimate child with HP Lovecraft&#8217;s Cthulhu series, this would be it.<\/p>\n<p>The main character, Captain d&#8217;Bois, relates his adventures in first person in an outrageous French accent and a sense of bombast and humor that is part Commander McBragg and part Pepe LePew.<\/p>\n<p>There is action, horror and humor throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Sit back and enjoy this Napoleonic Mythos mashup.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read &#8220;The Crystal Void&#8221; by John Houlihan. This was a joy to read. If George MacDonald Fraser&#8217;s Harry Flashman series had an illegitimate child with HP Lovecraft&#8217;s Cthulhu series, this would be it. The main character, Captain d&#8217;Bois, relates his adventures in first person in an outrageous French accent and a sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}