{"id":1980,"date":"2018-05-08T06:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T06:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2018-05-08T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T06:22:40","slug":"the-wonderling-by-mira-bartok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2018\/05\/the-wonderling-by-mira-bartok\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderling by Mira Bart\u00c3\u00b3k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_7463.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_7463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"845\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1982\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_7463.jpg 1001w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_7463-300x253.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_7463-768x648.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_7463-624x527.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis week I have been reading The Wonderling by Mira Bart\u00c3\u00b3k, an atmospheric &amp; enthralling story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hero of the story is a one eared groundling, a mix of fox &amp; boy, of many names who embarks on a quest full of adventure &amp; peril where heart wins out.<\/p>\n<p>The story starts at a miserable orphanage, Miss Carbunkle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Home For Wayward &amp; Misbegotten Creatures, where we meet Number Thirteen, a shy foxlike groundling. With the help and courage of friends such as Trinket he escapes the orphanage and goes looking for his past but soon discovers he has a much bigger destiny to fill.<\/p>\n<p>As with any quest there are villains to battle, obstacles to overcome &amp; friendships to discover. Although the story rolls forward at a gentle pace the wonderfully realised world with its mix of magical fantastical characters against a steampunk background meant I was happily captivated throughout.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a book to get easily lost in &amp; a reminder of the healing power of music, hope &amp; dreams.<\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks to the publisher for sending this review copy<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have been reading The Wonderling by Mira Bart\u00c3\u00b3k, an atmospheric &amp; enthralling story.&nbsp; The hero of the story is a one eared groundling, a mix of fox &amp; boy, of many names who embarks on a quest full of adventure &amp; peril where heart wins out. The story starts at a miserable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}