{"id":31657,"date":"2012-12-09T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/book-review-the-girl-who-would-be-king-by-kelly-thompson-2012.html"},"modified":"2012-12-09T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:19:14","slug":"book-review-the-girl-who-would-be-king-by-kelly-thompson-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/book-review-the-girl-who-would-be-king-by-kelly-thompson-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &quot;The Girl Who Would Be King&quot; by Kelly Thompson (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Book Review: &quot;The Girl Who Would Be King&quot; by Kelly Thompson (2012)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I liked this book a lot, and it&#39;s impressive as a first novel. Recommended for comic book readers.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1348778051l\/16050500.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/474110309'>a review of The Girl Who Would Be King<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 A remarkably good first novel by Kelly Thompson, this is a book of two young women, polar opposites of good and evil, learning they are possessed of awesome (even &#8220;super&#8221;) powers, and what they &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/KzAExDRvzDr' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: &quot;The Girl Who Would Be King&quot; by Kelly Thompson (2012) I liked this book a lot, and it&#39;s impressive as a first novel. Recommended for comic book readers. Embedded Link a review of The Girl Who Would Be King \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 A remarkably good first novel by Kelly Thompson, this is a book of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/book-review-the-girl-who-would-be-king-by-kelly-thompson-2012.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: &quot;The Girl Who Would Be King&quot; by Kelly Thompson (2012)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43666,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/the-girl-who-would-be-king-the-movie.html","url_meta":{"origin":31657,"position":0},"title":"The Girl Who Would Be King: The Movie","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Jul-14 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I was pleased to be part of this Kickstarter and enjoyed the book a lot (https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/474110309), so it's cool to see some the possibility of a movie opening up.\ufeff io9 Favorite The Girl Who Would Be King Will Be A Movie! 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