{"id":9250,"date":"2018-04-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9250"},"modified":"2018-03-30T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:09:16","slug":"e-is-the-end-with-apocalypse-of-elena-mendoza-by-shaun-david-hutchinson-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9250","title":{"rendered":"E is the END with Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza, by Shaun David Hutchinson (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookHer virgin birth<\/a> – science proves true.
\nToys speaking messages from Beyond – also true.
\nPeople snatched by a sky-portal when she heals others – ditto.<\/p>\n

Elena didn’t ask for healing powers, or for a drunken stepfather, or for inanimate objects to channel divine instructions to her since childhood.<\/p>\n

But in author Hutchinson’s odd Florida (setting of his At the Edge of the Universe<\/em> , my pick here<\/a>) strange things happen regularly.<\/p>\n

What is stealing away people? Why? Where do they go?<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s a better place than Elena’s high school and now-constant demands that she heal people.<\/p>\n

Fiction or science fiction? (or fantasy?)
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza \/ Shaun David Hutchinson. Simon Pulse, 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Her virgin birth – science proves true. Toys speaking messages from Beyond – also true. People snatched by a sky-portal when she heals others – ditto. Elena didn’t ask for healing powers, or for a drunken stepfather, or for inanimate objects to channel divine instructions to her since childhood. But in author Hutchinson’s odd Florida […]<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237,19,41],"tags":[90,22,7,4,75,11,20,5,37,16,18,239,44,43,27,184,15,9,21,268,35,33,8],"class_list":["post-9250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-medical","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-stepfamily","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-us-author"],"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\/9250","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=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9349,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions\/9349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}