{"id":3082,"date":"2016-07-27T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2017-02-17T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:39:34","slug":"izanamis-choice-by-adam-heine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/science-fiction\/izanamis-choice-by-adam-heine\/","title":{"rendered":"Izanami&#8217;s Choice, by Adam Heine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Izanamis-Choice-by-Adam-Heine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3083\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Izanamis-Choice-by-Adam-Heine-167x250.jpg\" alt=\"Izanami's Choice, by Adam Heine book cover\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Izanamis-Choice-by-Adam-Heine-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Izanamis-Choice-by-Adam-Heine.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><strong>Genre: Science Fiction<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Publisher: Broken Eye Books<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Published: 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Reviewer Rating:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/12\/fourstars.gif\" alt=\"four stars\" width=\"45\" height=\"13\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Book Review by Michael D. Griffiths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you read this book?<br \/>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-3082\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"0ee81d7197\">Why not rate it! <img id=\"rating_3082_1\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(3082, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_3082_2\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(3082, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_3082_3\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(3082, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_3082_4\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(3082, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_3082_5\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(3082, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> <br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_3082_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-3082-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Izanami&#8217;s Choice<\/b> by <i>Adam Heine <\/i>is an innovative Science Fiction novella with a Steampunk twist. It delivers on its boost to have Samurai verses Robots action and yeah it does. The setting takes place in a 1901 Japan, but this world is quite different from ours at the same time. Droids have taken over many jobs once done by humans. Itaru is a Ronin that blames the droids for the death of his son.<\/p>\n<p>He takes it onto himself to be one of the only people able to fight these robots and is forced to do so often as a private detective. When a droid that has become, &#8220;Aware,&#8217; shows up and begs him for help only moments before droid assassin descend on them and Itaru&#8221;s home is burned to the ground, Itaru becomes involved with a plot that could destroy Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Itaru gains the help of his estranged daughter, who had become an expert of the droid&#8217;s construction. Together they try to fight off the robots who are disobeying their programming and attacking humans. Mysteries and betrayals plague them and things get bloody and sparky too.<\/p>\n<p>This is a cool concept, but I might have liked to see it a be a bit longer. It was nice to be able to grab an intense action packed morsel, but it could have\u00a0 been a full length novel if Heine wanted. Still short and tight is a pleasure too.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>So if Science Fiction action and exploring cultures through different phases in time is something you enjoy, this is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Skinjumpers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Skinjumpers-Michael-D-Griffiths\/dp\/0983170959\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469680301&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Skinjumpers\" target=\"\">Michael D. Griffiths<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Broken Eye Books Published: 2016 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Book Review by Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Izanami&#8217;s Choice by Adam Heine is an innovative Science Fiction novella with a Steampunk twist. It delivers on its boost to have Samurai verses Robots action and yeah &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[71,955,956,779,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}