{"id":339,"date":"2015-10-10T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/?p=339"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:43:33","slug":"339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Jess Smart Smiley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I picked this up I was in the mood for something fast and easy that didn&#8217;t require much thought and concentration. And this graphic novel really delivered. It was fun light read filled with humor and with a fun plot. It&#8217;s the second novel in a series and I think it&#8217;s recommended to read the first one before taking on this, even if it&#8217;s definitely not a must. This novel stands well on its own too.<\/p>\n<p>Being a very quick and fast novel with little dialog, the art does most of the talking and even if it&#8217;s a very simple art it still does the job very well. I can say that I would have wished for the young vampire Harold to have played a little more of a major role in the climax of the plot, he sort of got lost a bit in the end. He started out as a scared boy haunted by nightmares, and I wanted him to do something to really face those fears, but unfortunately I don&#8217;t think he did enough considering he was sort of the main character. Still, it didn&#8217;t really matter that much when this was such a fun and fast read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/upsidedown.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-340\" src=\"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/upsidedown-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"upsidedown\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/upsidedown-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/upsidedown-39x50.jpg 39w, https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/upsidedown.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jess Smart Smiley When I picked this up I was in the mood for something fast and easy that didn&#8217;t require much thought and concentration. And this graphic novel really delivered. It was fun light read filled with humor and with a fun plot. It&#8217;s the second novel in a series and I think it&#8217;s recommended to read the first one before taking on this, even if it&#8217;s definitely not a must. This novel stands well on its own too. Being a very quick and fast novel with little dialog, the art does most of the talking and even if it&#8217;s a very simple art it still does the job very well. I can say that I would have wished for the young vampire Harold to have played a little more of a major role in the climax of the plot, he sort of got lost a bit in the end. He started out as a scared boy haunted by nightmares, and I wanted him to do something to really face those fears, but unfortunately I don&#8217;t think he did enough considering he was sort of the main character. Still, it didn&#8217;t really matter that much when this was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[28,4],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"Yes","cwp_rev_product_name":"Upside Down","cwp_rev_product_image":"","cwp_image_link":"image","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_pros":["Easy to read","","","",""],"wppr_cons":["","","","",""],"wppr_rating":"46.00","wppr_options":{"1":{"name":"Overall","value":"50"},"2":{"name":"Plot","value":"40"},"3":{"name":"Art","value":"40"},"4":{"name":"Characters","value":"45"},"5":{"name":"Ending","value":"55"}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}