{"id":1388,"date":"2006-02-05T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/02\/purity_of_blood\/"},"modified":"2006-02-05T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T21:11:52","slug":"purity_of_blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/purity_of_blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Purity of Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0297848631&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nPurity of Blood is the second in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001286.html\">Captain Alatriste<\/a> series of novels by Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte &#8211; and there are plenty more still to come.<br \/>\nThese are slight novels; not a great deal happens. The story is being told from the point of view by Alatriste&#8217;s protege, Inigo, at some indeterminate time in the future. And because of this, we learn about future events from time to time. I won&#8217;t spoil the &#8220;surprises&#8221; here.<br \/>\nThe plot revolves around a bungled operation to rescue a damsal in distress &#8211; well a nun from a convent &#8211; where she&#8217;s in danger from less than holy prists. And the action soon moves on to the behaviour of the Inquisition.<br \/>\nOverall this is more entertaining fare in swashbuckling style. At the moment, it seems as though we&#8217;re going to have to wait for another year for the next in the series, but at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0395119\/\">the film<\/a> might reach us sooner, and with it, more coverage of the Alatriste series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purity of Blood is the second in the Captain Alatriste series of novels by Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte &#8211; and there are plenty more still to come. These are slight novels; not a great deal happens. The story is being told from the point of view by Alatriste&#8217;s protege, Inigo, at some indeterminate time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}