{"id":25064,"date":"2019-09-21T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25064"},"modified":"2019-09-17T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T20:41:28","slug":"book-report-rook-city-by-seth-wolfshorndl-and-elton-gahr-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/21\/book-report-rook-city-by-seth-wolfshorndl-and-elton-gahr-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Rook City<\/i> by Seth Wolfshorndl and Elton Gahr (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/rookcity.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This book is by one of the artists behind <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/19\/book-report-duel-by-steve-wolfhorndl-and-matt-meyers\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duel!<\/a><\/em> and the author of a couple of other books I picked up at <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-17-2019-librarycon-2019\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LibraryCon 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This book deals with Rook City, a place where many people have special abilities, but one fellow does not.  A college student who likes mysteries, he helps an elderly vigilante escape a nursing home and witnesses several students who consume Dracula&#8217;s reconstituted blood and each receives a single ability of the vampire&#8217;s power&#8211;and a professor that drinks a vial with a more powerful reconstitution.  Oh, and the super hero defender of the city pays an actor to act as his nemesis and always look good.<\/p>\n<p>It has a number of stories with interconnections, and it works.  The art is simple and serves the story, which you know is what I like in comics.  And it hints at a continuation, so I&#8217;ll look for that.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it, so I&#8217;ll pick up more of the artist&#8217;s narrative work (that is, not the sketchbook kinds of collections that a lot of con comic book participants offer).  And I hope that I like Gahr&#8217;s fiction as much as I liked these stories.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is by one of the artists behind Duel! and the author of a couple of other books I picked up at LibraryCon 2019. This book deals with Rook City, a place where many people have special abilities, but one fellow does not. A college student who likes mysteries, he helps an elderly vigilante [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25065,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064\/revisions\/25065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}