{"id":1309,"date":"2009-04-07T08:44:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2009-04-06T23:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:47:40","slug":"magic-mensa-and-mayhem-by-karina-fabian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Magic, Mensa and Mayhem by Karina Fabian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mmmcoverfront.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1330  aligncenter\" title=\"Magic Mensa and Mayhem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mmmcoverfront-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Magic Mensa and Mayhem\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mmmcoverfront-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mmmcoverfront-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mmmcoverfront.jpg 1803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year the Mensa World Gathering is being held in Florida at BillyBeaver(TM)&#8217;s Fantasyland and several Faerie citizens have been invited.\u00c2\u00a0 The Gap between the Mundane and Faerie dimensions hasn&#8217;t been open long and with\u00c2\u00a0rumors of an upcoming war\u00c2\u00a0amongst the High Elves Bishop Aiden wants Vern and Sister Grace to keep an eye on things.\u00c2\u00a0 Or as Vern would say&#8230; he and Sister Grace are babysitting and the pay is too low.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karina Fabian&#8217;s <em>Magic, Mensa and Mayhem<\/em> began as a serialized story that was reformatted into a novel.\u00c2\u00a0 Fabian pulls all of the subplots together towards the end.\u00c2\u00a0 Even some of the characters that seemed minor play a larger role in this caper than they thought.<\/p>\n<p>Very little escapes Fabian&#8217;s wit<em>.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>She pokes fun at theme park tourists, environmentalists, \u00c2\u00a0reporters and pop culture.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Checking the\u00c2\u00a0Faerie guests into the hotel reads like the classic Abbott and Costello &#8220;Who&#8217;s On First?&#8221; routine.\u00c2\u00a0 Another highlight is the reputed showdown between Sister Grace and the Greek muse, Euterpe.\u00c2\u00a0 Fabian, Vern and Sister Grace are bound to have a following of fans after reading this adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the cases Vern and Sister Grace solve at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoneyepi.net,\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon Eye, P.I<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Mensa World Gathering is being held in Florida at BillyBeaver(TM)&#8217;s Fantasyland and several Faerie citizens have been invited.\u00c2\u00a0 The Gap between the Mundane and Faerie dimensions hasn&#8217;t been open long and with\u00c2\u00a0rumors of an upcoming war\u00c2\u00a0amongst the High Elves Bishop Aiden wants Vern and Sister Grace to keep an eye on things.\u00c2\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1309\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magic, Mensa and Mayhem by Karina Fabian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,128,136],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-book","tag-karina-fabian","tag-magic-mensa-and-mayhem","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}