{"id":14799,"date":"2019-08-10T21:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2019-08-10T21:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T01:54:21","slug":"the-radleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-radleys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Radleys<\/strong> by Matt Haig, published in 2010<\/p>\n<p>The Radleys are vampires. Peter and Helen used to drink blood, but they&#8217;ve been abstaining for years. Their kids, Rowan and Clara, know they&#8217;re unusual but they don&#8217;t know why. When Clara decides to become a vegan, Helen thinks the time has come to tell them the truth.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about making a decision to live contrary to your nature, for morality&#8217;s sake &#8212; and what morals you would abandon when your children are in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great book. The second half is more serious because of where the story goes, but the first half has a nice sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 3 books by Haig. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-humans\/\"><strong>The Humans<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.&#8221; The Radleys by Matt Haig, published in 2010 The Radleys are vampires. Peter and Helen used to drink blood, but they&#8217;ve been abstaining [&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-14799","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\/14799","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=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14805,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions\/14805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}