{"id":9692,"date":"2025-01-15T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2025-01-15T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:23:25","slug":"this-review-made-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/this-review-made-my-day\/","title":{"rendered":"This review made my day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>Thank you, Becky, for this <a href=\"https:\/\/blbooks.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/5-kidnapped-from-ukraine-under-attack.html\">wonderful review<\/a> of Under Attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am particularly gratified with this paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My thoughts: What a novel!!!! Truly I cannot do the book justice. It&#8217;s an incredible read from cover to cover. I am not surprised&#8211;I&#8217;d expect nothing less from Skrypuch. She excels at everything&#8211;writing, plotting, characterization. But it is the characterization that particularly wows me every time. Because though it shouldn&#8217;t be rare, it mostly is. The depth of characterization is outstanding. It isn&#8217;t just that there&#8217;s depth and substance of the main character, but it is how expansive the characterization is. There&#8217;s no shortcuts, no character too small to not get treated as important. It makes it impossible not to get invested and thoroughly absorbed in the story.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/underattackstack-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"awesome review of Under Attack by \" class=\"wp-image-9693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/underattackstack-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/underattackstack-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/underattackstack-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/underattackstack.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Becky, for this wonderful review of Under Attack. I am particularly gratified with this paragraph: My thoughts: What a novel!!!! Truly I cannot do the book justice. It&#8217;s an incredible read from cover to cover. I am not surprised&#8211;I&#8217;d expect nothing less from Skrypuch. She excels at everything&#8211;writing, plotting, characterization. But it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/this-review-made-my-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This review made my day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[913,864,353,7,863,345],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-beckys-book-reviews","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraine","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-under-attack","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9694,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}