{"id":1484,"date":"2012-02-12T02:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T07:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2012-02-12T02:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T07:33:53","slug":"review-the-ulysses-quicksilver-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/9599856\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1328202940m\/9599856.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/9599856\">The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/242006\">Jonathan Green<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/193555920\">0 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I started this omnibus containing three books a while back (maybe over a year ago). It looked vaguely amusing, a mix of steampunk with a bit of Holmesian (not sure about the Bond influence, it feels more Holmesian to me).  The book was entertaining through Act 1 of the first story, then the obvious references to modern day&#8217;s political issues (i.e., anti-terrorism acts) felt a tad trite.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was also still in the midst of plowing through a few other series that were quite good, I put this book aside for later. I&#8217;m now in the mood for a bit of the Holmesian, so I&#8217;ll give this book another go. At the very least, I&#8217;ll try to finish reading the first book, <i>Unnatural History<\/i>. If this story proves to be more adventurous than political by the end, then I&#8217;ll decide whether or not to read the other two books in this omnibus.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/193555920\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"medium\" count=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=1484\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus by Jonathan Green My rating: 0 of 5 stars I started this omnibus containing three books a while back (maybe over a year ago). It looked vaguely amusing, a mix of steampunk with a bit of Holmesian (not sure about the Bond influence, it feels more Holmesian to me). The book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}