{"id":9260,"date":"2018-04-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2018-04-13T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:47:42","slug":"n-is-name-of-the-blade-calling-mio-to-danger-love-by-zoe-marriott-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9260","title":{"rendered":"N is Name of the Blade calling Mio to danger & love, by Zoe Marriott (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USGrandfather said she would become guardian of this katana<\/a> at age 16, as Yamatos have done for over 500 years. <\/p>\n

Surely it’s okay if Mio takes the ancient sword from its hiding place a little early, while Mom and Dad are away…<\/p>\n

Monsters and gods, worlds of humans and spirits<\/a>, from Japan to London to the depths of despair to first love – the katana connects them all to Mio as she struggles to master herself and the legendary blade’s powers.<\/p>\n

Glide into Mio’s no longer boring life by reading the first chapter here<\/a> free (courtesy of the publisher). Yes, all 3 books of the trilogy are available in the US!<\/p>\n

Family secrets – what to share?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Name of the Blade (Name of the Blade trilogy, book 1) \/ Zoe Marriott. Candlewick Press, 2014. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grandfather said she would become guardian of this katana at age 16, as Yamatos have done for over 500 years. Surely it’s okay if Mio takes the ancient sword from its hiding place a little early, while Mom and Dad are away… Monsters and gods, worlds of humans and spirits, from Japan to London to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9428,"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":[237,19,30,41],"tags":[10,90,22,7,11,20,5,37,16,32,18,44,185,103,39,49,31,15,21,66,35,33,3,28],"class_list":["post-9260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-japan","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Name-of-the-Blade.jpg?fit=436%2C648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260","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=9260"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9446,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions\/9446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}