{"id":1997,"date":"2017-03-01T16:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:24:38","slug":"recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/03-01-2017\/recruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1998\" src=\"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Recruits.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" \/>As if being contacted by a strange man and being told they have been selected to join an elite interstellar program wasn&#8217;t enough, Dillon and Sean Kirrel find out that they aren&#8217;t even normal by the program&#8217;s standards. This begins an intense training time for both boys, and leads to them fighting to protect all humans as they become <em>Recruits<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Locke has written another great book, one that is not only entertaining, but lets you connect with the characters. The people and places are well described, and it is easy to imagine how things look in the story.<\/p>\n<p>Locke can take a great story, and use it to kindle your imagination and show the good in people. The characters had to put opinions aside and see things from a new perspective. Both Dillon and Sean have to work through their different personalities and their doubts to do what they know is right. At the same time, they must deal with problems in relating to those around them.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I could fault the book for is being hard to put down. Every time I aimed to take a break after finishing a chapter, I was drawn into wanting to read just a bit more to see what happened next.<\/p>\n<p>I received a complementary copy of Recruits from the publisher, but all opinions are my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if being contacted by a strange man and being told they have been selected to join an elite interstellar program wasn&#8217;t enough, Dillon and Sean Kirrel find out that they aren&#8217;t even normal by the program&#8217;s standards. This begins an intense training time for both boys, and leads to them fighting to protect all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}