{"id":2119,"date":"2016-08-24T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2016-08-24T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:45:06","slug":"book-review-what-angels-fear-by-c-s-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39149.What_Angels_Fear\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net\/books\/1463986741m\/39149.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39149.What_Angels_Fear\">What Angels Fear<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/22067.C_S_Harris\">C.S. Harris<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1737797329\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book is the first in a Regency mystery series featuring Sebastian St. Cyr, an aristocrat with an interesting set of skills learned in fighting for the British against Napoleon. Don&#8217;t let the Regency time period deceive you, however. This is not a Georgette Heyer-type mystery&#8211;lighthearted and mischievous (and I love Heyer Regency novels). This is a gritty Regency mystery, with dark descriptions of London&#8217;s underclass, the role of women in all levels of society, and a sadistic and unbalanced murderer. Sebastian St. Cyr is simultaneously troubled and appealing (but mostly appealing). And while there are definitely black-hearted villains in this book, there are no unflawed heroes or heroines.<br \/>\nOh, and what angels fear is falling in love with mortals.<br \/>\nIf you combined Georgette Heyer with Bernard Cornwell, you would end up with &#8220;What Angels Fear.&#8221;<br \/>\nI look forward to continuing the series!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is the first in a Regency mystery series featuring Sebastian St. Cyr, an aristocrat with an interesting set of skills learned in fighting for the British against Napoleon. Don&#8217;t let the Regency time period deceive you, however. This is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,427,115,108,426,425],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-c-s-harris","tag-historical-mysteries","tag-mysteries","tag-sebastian-st-cyr","tag-what-angels-fear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-yb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}