{"id":1774,"date":"2013-04-05T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2013-04-05T23:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T06:53:57","slug":"mark-reads-the-demons-lexicon-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-reads-the-demons-lexicon-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Demon&#8217;s Lexicon&#8217;: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, bless the heavens, it&#8217;s time for Sarah Rees Brennan to ruin me\u00c2\u00a0<em>once again<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Hello, Readers! Whilst I was on tour (and I&#8217;ll have a post about that up by tomorrow), the lovely Natalie (WHO I MET IN NEW YORK OMG!) commissioned me to start <em>The\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><em>Demon&#8217;s Lexicon<\/em> trilogy that Sarah Rees Brennan wrote before\u00c2\u00a0<em>Unspoken<\/em>. I reviewed that book in <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/01\/mark-reads-unspoken-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> <a title=\"Mark Reads \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcUnspoken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/01\/mark-reads-unspoken-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">parts<\/a> early this year after I fell in love with the story\u00c2\u00a0<em>because of a thing I can&#8217;t spoil you for<\/em>. Suffice to say, it was a surprising and entertaining read, so when Natalie commissioned this, I was pretty damn excited to start reading it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I know about\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Demon&#8217;s Lexicon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">what<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dude, I didn&#8217;t even know it\u00c2\u00a0<em>existed<\/em> until I read\u00c2\u00a0<em>Unspoken<\/em>. (PS: Hurry up and give me <i>Untold<\/i>, Sarah, because\u00c2\u00a0<em>I NEED MORE ANGELA AND KAMI AND JARED REALLY REALLY SOON\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>kthx u rule.) So I went into this book with that sort of ignorant abandon that always gets me in trouble and\u00c2\u00a0<strong>WHO STARTS THEIR BOOK OFF THIS WAY\u00c2\u00a0<em>WHAT THE HELL<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 1, Part 1<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WuhDhmPNsSg\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 1, Part 2<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ysatciy7Mdc\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 2, Part 1<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPJngtlMbSA\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 2, Part 2<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vS1aglROlaU\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, right off the bat, I&#8217;m kind of totally into this world, its matter-of-fact presentation, the INCREDIBLY FUCKED UP nature of it, and the dichotomy presented by the two brothers? IDEK Y&#8217;ALL, THIS IS PRETTY FUN ALREADY. I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0<em>properly<\/em> in the book just yet, but I&#8217;m actually going to continue reading these books as I did for <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/tag\/redshirts\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Scalzi&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/tag\/redshirts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Redshirts<\/em><\/a>. My next commission is for chapter 16 and 17, so I&#8217;ll just break the book up into a few reviews per book. It&#8217;s fun to do something extra for y&#8217;all, and Sarah Rees Brennan feeds off our collective pain, so why not? So you can definitely expect 3-4 posts per book for the trilogy, and the next ones will be more review-y. If that makes any sense? I HOPE IT DOES.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in seeing a live reading from this book, <a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/product\/mark-reads--video\" target=\"_blank\">you&#8217;re welcome to commission any chapter from me<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t want folks to feel like they\u00c2\u00a0<em>have<\/em> to in order to get more reviews. All of next week&#8217;s posts are done already, so I&#8217;m spending the next three days getting commissions out of the way, and I don&#8217;t mind taking on a bit more at this point. Plus,\u00c2\u00a0<em>WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON, WHERE IS THE DAD, WHAT IS UP WITH THE MOM\u00c2\u00a0<strong>H E L<\/strong><strong> P<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve gotten myself into this. Here goes nothing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, bless the heavens, it&#8217;s time for Sarah Rees Brennan to ruin me\u00c2\u00a0once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[336,335,366],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-does-stuff-2","tag-commissions","tag-sarah-rees-brennan","tag-the-demons-lexicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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