{"id":2513,"date":"2017-09-08T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2017-09-08T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:13:29","slug":"book-review-thief-of-hearts-by-teresa-medeiros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Thief of Hearts by Teresa Medeiros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1054298.Thief_of_Hearts\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1325529426m\/1054298.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Thief of Hearts\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1054298.Thief_of_Hearts\">Thief of Hearts<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/19971.Teresa_Medeiros\">Teresa Medeiros<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2118061940\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t typically review the romances I read (although I read a lot of them!), but this one is an exception. The author is a recent discovery for me, and I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading all of her books so far, but this one was a cut above the rest. It&#8217;s difficult to say why, although I think it&#8217;s because the hero and heroine are both so well fleshed out in this book. The hero is handsome (of course!) but with a conflicted past, a thirst for (justifiable) revenge, and dark corners in his soul. The heroine is beautiful (naturally!) but has a distant parent, a repressed upbringing, and a spirit that has somehow flourished nonetheless. They make for a lovely couple. Add into that the choices each makes at different points in the book (revenge over compassion? principle over love? loyalty over truth?), and this book consists of a multi-layered, complex plot and characters. It is a book to soothe and nourish the romance in your soul (assuming you have some). \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nIf historical romances are your thing, this is a must-read!<\/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>Thief of Hearts by Teresa Medeiros My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don&#8217;t typically review the romances I read (although I read a lot of them!), but this one is an exception. The author is a recent discovery for me, and I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading all of her books so far, but this one was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,182,475,474],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-romances","tag-teresa-medeiros","tag-thief-of-hearts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-Ex","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}