{"id":1331,"date":"1997-01-07T17:02:04","date_gmt":"1997-01-07T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:02:57","slug":"night-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Night Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Night Calls<\/em> by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel<\/h3>\n<p>On January 7, four of us met at the FACT Office to talk             about <strong>Night Calls<\/strong>, the new fantasy by Austin             writer Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. Two others had read             the book but were unable to attend the meeting, so they             e-mailed comments to be brought to the discussion.             Kimbriel&#8217;s novel , set in 19th century America, is             about a frontier family confronted by werewolves,             vampires, and other supernatural creatures. The             e-mailed comments included &#8220;it is charming&#8221; and &#8220;I love             this book! I rushed out immediately to buy the sequel,             only to find that it&#8217;s not out yet.&#8221; Those physically             in attendance also liked the book quite a lot. The             frontier atmosphere was well portrayed. One person             compared the book favorably to S. P. Somtow&#8217;s             <strong>Vampire Junction<\/strong>. Most of the group liked the             details of frontier life, but there were too many             quilting scenes for my personal taste. We liked how the             book delivered on the horror elements suggested by the             cover, yet refrained from explicit gore. The voice of             the narrator, a teenage girl, felt &#8220;real&#8221; to our group.             While the story reached a satisfying closure, it left             opportunities for a sequel. It looks like Ms. Kimbriel             now has several people looking forward to her next             book.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night Calls by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel On January 7, four of us met at the FACT Office to talk about Night Calls, the new fantasy by Austin writer Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. Two others had read the book but were unable to attend the meeting, so they e-mailed comments to be brought to the discussion. Kimbriel&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}