{"id":7767,"date":"2016-07-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2016-07-23T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:19:50","slug":"huck-by-mark-millar-and-rafael-albuquerque-book-review-strong-brave-good-and-hunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7767","title":{"rendered":"Huck, by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque (book review) – strong, brave, good…and hunted"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookOrphan makes good,
\nloved by town,
\nhunted by desperate evil!<\/p>\n

With super-human strength<\/a>, unbelievable speed, and the ability to find anything or anyone, Huck is a quiet, unassuming man who is loved and shielded by his small town – until a new neighbor alerts the media!<\/p>\n

Now sought out by those missing loved ones and pets, he’s also on the radar of an evil Russian scientist… who’s been searching for his ability a very, very long time.<\/p>\n

Just on sale this week, if you don’t see Huck<\/em> at your local library<\/a>, ask for it at an independent bookstore<\/a> or comic book shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A charming and humble superhero who does #onegooddeed daily, just as they taught him at the orphanage – join him in that challenge to fill the world with kindness, won’t you?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Huck \/ Mike Millar, art by Rafael Albuquerque. Image Comics, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [artist site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: His superpower is being able to find anything or anyone, but Huck stays humble and helpful, doing a good deed every day in his small seaside town.<\/p>\n

When a newcomer blows the protective anonymity that his neighbors have built around the young man since he was found at the orphanage as a baby, the gas station attendant is inundated with requests to find missing persons (and dogs).<\/p>\n

While on these missions (with super-human strength), Huck also finds the brother he never knew! Tom knows their mother’s name and that enough for Huck to be able to find her – if the evil Russian scientist’s bad guys don’t get them all first…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orphan makes good, loved by town, hunted by desperate evil! With super-human strength, unbelievable speed, and the ability to find anything or anyone, Huck is a quiet, unassuming man who is loved and shielded by his small town – until a new neighbor alerts the media! Now sought out by those missing loved ones and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,80,41,62],"tags":[90,22,7,4,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,44,27,49,221,111,31,15,153,21,35,33,6,287,28],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","category-paranormal","category-science-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-new-england","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-russia","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-travel","tag-vermont","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}