{"id":143,"date":"2015-01-09T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:03:00","slug":"review-now-that-youre-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Review: Now That You&#8217;re Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nowThatYoureHere.jpg\" alt=\"nowThatYoureHere\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nowThatYoureHere.jpg 265w, http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nowThatYoureHere-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/>It&#8217;s been a while, but I&#8217;m going to try to read (and review!) more books in 2015 &#8211; starting with NOW THAT YOU&#8217;RE HERE by Amy K. Nichols.<\/p>\n<p>I was excited to read NOW THAT YOU&#8217;RE HERE because the parallel universe concept seemed unique and it didn&#8217;t disappoint. I was a little afraid that it would be too science-geeky for me and while a few of the concepts were over my head, the author did a fantastic job of making me NOT feel like an idiot while I was reading. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>It was so nice to have a book where the characters were smart and not superficial, and nice to have a YA book that didn&#8217;t try to push the envelope. I\u00a0can already think of some of my science-loving students who are going to love reading\u00a0this.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait for the next book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/While-Were-Gone-Duplexity-Part-ebook\/dp\/B00PEPR5G8\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1420822814&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=amy+k+nichols\">WHILE YOU WERE GONE coming out on August 4th<\/a>! (I thought I loved this cover, but WHILE YOU WERE GONE&#8217;s cover makes me swoon with all kinds of colory-starbursty love. Check it out and pre-order it while you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, but I&#8217;m going to try to read (and review!) more books in 2015 &#8211; starting with NOW THAT YOU&#8217;RE HERE by Amy K. Nichols. I was excited to read NOW THAT YOU&#8217;RE HERE because the parallel universe concept seemed unique and it didn&#8217;t disappoint. I was a little afraid that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}