{"id":632,"date":"2003-05-11T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2003-05-11T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-632.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"john-gregory-betancourt-roger-zelaznys-the-dawn-of-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/05\/11\/john-gregory-betancourt-roger-zelaznys-the-dawn-of-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gregory Betancourt &#8211; <i>Roger Zelazny&#8217;s The Dawn of Amber<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you take this for what it <em>is<\/em>, an add-on novel in a shared universe, rather than an actual new Amber book by Zelazny, then it&#8217;s actually quite entertaining.  If you&#8217;ve played the Amber RPG at all, then it will all seem very familiar:  new relatives springing from the woodwork, the world or universe is in danger, intrigue and treachery yada yada.  There&#8217;s nothing here that hasn&#8217;t already been done in dozens of Amber RPG scenarios.  But nevertheless, it&#8217;s not bad at all.  The plot moves along quickly, there are some exciting moments, and the scene is set for further adventure.  Think of it as fan fiction done by a professional writer, and you won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you take this for what it is, an add-on novel in a shared universe, rather than an actual new Amber book by Zelazny, then it&#8217;s actually quite entertaining. If you&#8217;ve played the Amber RPG at all, then it will all seem very familiar: new relatives springing from the woodwork, the world or universe is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}