{"id":499,"date":"2012-05-24T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/?p=499"},"modified":"2012-05-24T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:54:12","slug":"no-peas-in-this-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/2012\/05\/24\/no-peas-in-this-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"No peas in this POD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7w89km3E-HY\/TlwsbEKC1_I\/AAAAAAAAAiU\/14ea5M3n_Cs\/s1600\/POD.jpg\" title=\"It rhymes with Bod... but why?\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"58\" height=\"100\" \/><strong><br \/>\nOh I do love a dystopian novel and POD by Stephen Wallenfels nestles rather well into this catergory but with aliens thrown in for good measure. A bit like a modern-day War of the Worlds &#8211; strangle alien POD things hover in the sky zapping (fun fact: In Dutch the book is called Zap) anyone who dares to come out of their house.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story is split into two perspectives Meg trapped in a car park and Josh trapped in his house.<br \/>\nThe tension is palpable and there are often moments where you truly think <em>&#8220;What would I do?&#8221;.<\/em> Despite the aliens the book feels strangely realistic or I wonder if that&#8217;s because we are so used to the notion of alien attack that the novel is breaking no new ground here.<br \/>\nIf you are a little bit of a sensitive soul I would steer away from this as it has some quite shocking and a touch grisly scenes. <\/p>\n<p>However, for those who are fans of Michael Grant and Susanne Collins I think you will be more than happy.<br \/>\nThere is a real twist in the morality of the book as the aliens are not the only enemy in this desperate fight for survival.<br \/>\nSo, if this sounds like your cup of literacy, pop into the library and pour yourself a POD.  You could also check out his web site at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenwallenfels.com\/\">www.stephenwallenfels.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mrs B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh I do love a dystopian novel and POD by Stephen Wallenfels nestles rather well into this catergory but with aliens thrown in for good measure. A bit like a modern-day War of the Worlds &#8211; strangle alien POD things hover in the sky zapping (fun fact: In Dutch the book is called Zap) anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5209],"tags":[6770,2945,5251,5215,6771,5046],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-the-week","tag-aliens","tag-book","tag-dystopia","tag-fiction","tag-pod","tag-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/LibraryWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}