{"id":598,"date":"2014-10-21T07:56:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T23:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2014-10-21T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T00:03:12","slug":"isis-vampires-and-ghosts-oh-my-has-appeared-in-the-october-edition-of-the-san-francisco-book-review-4-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/isis-vampires-and-ghosts-oh-my-has-appeared-in-the-october-edition-of-the-san-francisco-book-review-4-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Isis, Vampires and Ghosts &#8211; Oh My!&#8217; has appeared in the October edition of the San Francisco Book Review &#8211; 4 stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SFBR-Oct-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-601 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SFBR-Oct-2014-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"October cover of San Francisco Book Review\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SFBR-Oct-2014-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SFBR-Oct-2014.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve included the whole review, but if you want to see the original it can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/anotheruniverse.com\/isis-vampires-and-ghosts-oh-my\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Isis, Vampires and Ghosts &#8211; Oh My!<br \/>\nBy Janis Hill<br \/>\nHague Publishing, $4.66 US, 183 pages<br \/>\nFormat: eBook<br \/>\nReviewer: Holly Scudero<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stars-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-600 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stars-41.jpg\" alt=\"4 out of 5 stars\" width=\"108\" height=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephanie and her sister Estella have been estranged for years, and Stephanie is, admittedly, not particularly heartbroken to hear of Estella\u2019s death. But upon arriving to the funeral, held in the questionably new-age-y Temple of Isis, Stephanie learns that Estella is not so much dead as undead. And is now the host of an ancient, evil vampire named Branwyre. And Stephanie is the only one who can banish Branwyre and save Estella\u2019s soul. Stephanie quickly finds herself thrown into a world she can hardly believe is real, with ghosts and demons and more. With the aid of Roxanna, the High Priestess of Isis, and the crude ghost of a monk named Trishna, not to mention the undead Estella herself, Stephanie sets out to retrieve Branwyre\u2019s crucible and banish the ghost before he takes permanent possession of Estella\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wrapper\" class=\"sidebar_left\">\n<div id=\"main_content_alt\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"posts-wrap\">\n<div id=\"post-single\" class=\"post-31685 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-science-fiction-fantasy tag-holly-scudero\">\n<div id=\"entry-content-single\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Even readers who do not generally enjoy paranormal fiction will probably enjoy Janis Hill\u2019s <em>Isis, Vampires, and Ghosts \u2013 Oh My!<\/em>\u00a0This story is fun and fast-paced, and reluctant hero Stephanie provides an entertaining point of view. She spends much of the early part of the story in disbelief that any of this is even real, but her determination to finally end things with her sister drives her to do it anyway. Readers will likely identify with the sibling problems Stephanie and Estella display, and their eventual reconciliation is sweet; Stephanie\u2019s final forgiveness of Estella\u2019s irresponsible past just might inspire tears. Trishna was an entertaining fellow, although his profanity-laced insults of Stephanie and others got very tiresome very quickly; they were humorous at first, but before long I found myself skimming over them. That aside, <em>Isis, Vampires, and Ghosts \u2013 Oh My!<\/em>\u00a0is all kinds of fun, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who is looking forward to more supernatural adventures with Stephanie in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve included the whole review, but if you want to see the original it can be found here. Isis, Vampires and Ghosts &#8211; Oh My! By Janis Hill Hague Publishing, $4.66 US, 183 pages Format: eBook Reviewer: Holly Scudero Stephanie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/isis-vampires-and-ghosts-oh-my-has-appeared-in-the-october-edition-of-the-san-francisco-book-review-4-stars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[72,133,135,136],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-readers","category-reviews","tag-isis","tag-review","tag-san-francisco-book-review","tag-vampires-and-ghoste"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}