{"id":10514,"date":"2017-04-06T19:50:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10514"},"modified":"2017-04-06T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:50:45","slug":"touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Naturally, should you pursue those who would pursue me, I would be a hypocrite to offer anything but my grateful thanks. Yet my thanks would be, I think, premature. For there is a near-infinity of men and women who are fearful and wish me harm, but only ever one of me, standing in the dark with knife in hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Touch<\/strong> by Claire North, published in 2015<\/p>\n<p>They call themselves ghosts. When they touch you their consciousness takes over your body, and you won&#8217;t remember the time they inhabited it. The one known as Kepler tries to be as moral as possible &#8212; but he still steals other people&#8217;s bodies, sometimes without asking. Then Kepler discovers he has a nemesis, Galileo &#8212; a ghost who kills other ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>This story is gripping and unique. It&#8217;s similar in a general way to North&#8217;s previous book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august\/\"><strong>The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August<\/strong><\/a>, in that the main character has lived an unusual life for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed it a lot. With the precise details of the locations, you&#8217;ll feel like you&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<p>I will certainly be on the lookout for more of North&#8217;s books<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Naturally, should you pursue those who would pursue me, I would be a hypocrite to offer anything but my grateful thanks. Yet my thanks would be, I think, premature. For there is a near-infinity of men and women who are fearful and wish me harm, but only ever one of me, standing in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10553,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions\/10553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}