{"id":2206,"date":"2016-11-20T16:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T21:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2016-11-20T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T21:58:38","slug":"book-review-when-gods-die-by-c-s-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  When Gods Die by C.S. Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39148.When_Gods_Die\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1309200754m\/39148.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr #2)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39148.When_Gods_Die\">When Gods Die<\/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\/1813500850\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the second in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series and follows up on a strong debut novel (&#8220;What Angels Fear&#8221;). There are lots of things going on in this mystery&#8211;a countess is killed, and the Prince Regent is a strong suspect, threatening the monarchy. If that isn&#8217;t enough, there is the threat of a rebellion to overthrow the House of Hanover and replace it with a descendant of the House of Stuart. Surprise, surprise, it turns out that the two events may be connected. And then there&#8217;s the mysterious death of Sebastian&#8217;s mother and why her favorite necklace was found on the body of the dead countess.<br \/>\nThis series has become a favorite of mine. I love the Regency historical period and as much as I love the lighthearted Regency romances, I also appreciate the grittiness and observations of the underside of Regency society that are a characteristic of this series. Sebastian St. Cyr is a flawed but extremely appealing hero, and the secondary characters are vividly portrayed. Especially heartbreaking in this book is the portrayal of the dead countess&#8217;s husband.<br \/>\nThis series is a definite must for the TBR pile!<\/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>When Gods Die by C.S. Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the second in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series and follows up on a strong debut novel (&#8220;What Angels Fear&#8221;). There are lots of things going on in this mystery&#8211;a countess is killed, and the Prince Regent is a strong suspect, [&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":[336,427,115,108,426,436],"class_list":["post-2206","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-when-gods-die"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-zA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}