{"id":1075,"date":"2008-07-04T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:29:00","slug":"an-irritating-supernatural-romance-bustin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/07\/04\/an-irritating-supernatural-romance-bustin\/","title":{"rendered":"An irritating supernatural romance: Bustin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bustin-Minda-Webber\/dp\/0505527057\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1215184923&amp;sr=8-1\">Bustin&#8217;<\/a> by Minda Webber would like to be a light-hearted, wisecracking supernatural romance, but it fails. Heroine Sam, supposedly an exterminator of paranormal pests, suffers from a tendency to rant, which makes her seem unhinged and prejudiced, rather than charmingly eccentric. The setting suffers from gratuitous alliteration, unimaginative pop-culture puns and a cast of secondaries who compete with each other to see who can be the quirkiest. I hear that Sam exterminates ghosts [one of which is a soup-can-painting spirit named Andy *GET IT hah hah hah winkwink nudgenudge*] for a vampire prince, meanwhile falling in love with a werewolf, but I put the book down before the love interest arrived. As a native Vermonter, I could not forgive Webber for setting a book in Vermont and refusing to describe the state in any remotely convincing detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bustin&#8217; by Minda Webber would like to be a light-hearted, wisecracking supernatural romance, but it fails. Heroine Sam, supposedly an exterminator of paranormal pests, suffers from a tendency to rant, which makes her seem unhinged and prejudiced, rather than charmingly eccentric. The setting suffers from gratuitous alliteration, unimaginative pop-culture puns and a cast of secondaries&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/07\/04\/an-irritating-supernatural-romance-bustin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An irritating supernatural romance: Bustin&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[696],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-that-piss-me-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5886,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}