{"id":100,"date":"2011-04-27T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T04:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-04-27T04:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T04:47:06","slug":"city-of-masks-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/2011\/04\/27\/city-of-masks-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Masks reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/50bookchallenge.livejournal.com\/11898009.html\">Silentrequiem<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<p>I love epistolary stories, and I love political intrigue, and I love  masks. This book was all three wrapped into one delicious package.  Reeves-McMillan has created a fascinating society with Bonvidaeo where  all the citizenry wear masks and take on the persona of the character &#8211;  and are legally their mask. Bass, by virtue of being the brother-in-law  of Calaria&#8217;s Undersecretary to the Foreign Minister, is assigned to be  envoy to Bonvidaeo. Not only is he thrown into a confusing new culture  but he soon stumbles into the middle of a serial murderer&#8217;s killings and  political machinations to disrupt the current political order.  This  was a fascinating story, and I only wish that there had be[en more?].  Reeves-McMillan nicely captured the different voices of the characters,  and did a great job telling the store through Bonvidaeo&#8217;s journal  entries. I loved the twist ending. Part of it I was expecting; the other  parts, not at all. 4\/5<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, silentrequiem. My pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silentrequiem writes: I love epistolary stories, and I love political intrigue, and I love masks. This book was all three wrapped into one delicious package. Reeves-McMillan has created a fascinating society with Bonvidaeo where all the citizenry wear masks and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/2011\/04\/27\/city-of-masks-reviewed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}