{"id":2254,"date":"2018-03-11T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2017-12-25T00:42:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T16:42:54","slug":"review-this-night-so-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"review; this night so dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a2d3027b601ebfd4cb6f863bc5c4ba29\/tumblr_inline_nfw42kheiH1qae2sm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>This Night So Dark<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nby Amie Kaufman &amp; Meagan Spooner<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><small><i>Tarver still has nightmares about the night, six months before the Icarus crash, when he rescued a group of civilian researchers being held hostage by brutal mercenaries. Now Tarver and Lilac must reconcile his memories of that fateful night with the truth that they uncovered on a mysterious planet after the Icarus crashed.<\/i> <\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Review:<!--more--><small>Oh man, learning more about Tarver and why he was promoted should not have sucked me in as much as it did &#8211; but it has built up the characters so much more. We see how Tarver learnt to deal with pressure the way he did, and ale we find out a little more about just how the Icarus crashed &#8211; on top of that, the whispers? They\u2019re still there?<\/p>\n<p>I especially adore the fact that the authors are taking the time to tell us that the world is diverse &#8211; and not in an in-your-face way, but casually. Names and mentions of skin colour tell us that the characters come from all over, and casual mentions of Sanjana having a girlfriend or Cole having a boyfriend &#8211; mentions that I noticed in the first novel and which made me rather happy &#8211; just enrich the story. It just is, in this world they have created, and I like that.<\/p>\n<p>Gah, I cannot wait for <b>This Shattered World<\/b> to tell us more about what exactly the whispers were and why they are not being allowed to rest the way they want.<\/p>\n<p>This was such a great way to bridge the gap between the two novels.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Night So Dark by Amie Kaufman &amp; Meagan Spooner Tarver still has nightmares about the night, six months before the Icarus crash, when he rescued a group of civilian researchers being held hostage by brutal mercenaries. Now Tarver and Lilac must reconcile his memories of that fateful night with the truth that they uncovered on a mysterious planet after the Icarus crashed. Review:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[144,274,97,9,6,273,275],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-amie-kaufman","tag-amie-kaufman-meagan-spooner","tag-meagan-spooner","tag-older-reviews","tag-reviews","tag-the-starbound-trilogy","tag-this-night-so-dark"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}