{"id":2813,"date":"2010-09-28T23:20:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T03:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2010-09-28T23:20:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T03:20:41","slug":"manifest-a-mystyx-novel-by-artist-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Manifest: A Mystyx Novel by Artist Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>Manifest: A Mystyx Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Author:<\/strong> Artist Arthur<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Kimani Press TRU<br \/>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong> Columbus Metropolitan Library<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Manifest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2830  aligncenter\" title=\"Manifest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Manifest.jpg\" alt=\"Manifest by Artist Arthur Book Cover\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artist Arthur captures the essence of a teenage girl unhappy with her lot in life.\u00c2\u00a0 Her parents have divorced and her mother&#8217;s remarried.\u00c2\u00a0 Krystal Bentley no longer lives in New York City and has moved with her mother to Lincoln, Connecticut.\u00c2\u00a0 Krystal thinks her parents should still be together.\u00c2\u00a0 Krystal&#8217;s dad won&#8217;t answer or return her phone calls.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Things begin to look up when this cute boy named Ricky Watson starts talking to her until she realizes he died a year ago and wants her to prove his friends had nothing to do with his murder. With her attitude it&#8217;s no surprise she hasn&#8217;t made any friends at all.\u00c2\u00a0 Even Ricky has been waiting to introduce himself to Krystal until he thought she might be ready to listen to him.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the things I didn&#8217;t like: Finding Ricky&#8217;s killer takes a backseat to finding out more about the Mystyx; and the diary entries about the Mystyx doesn&#8217;t really tell the kids anything.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the things I liked: Krystal matures and becomes less self-centered by the end; her circle of friends come from a variety of economic and ethnic backgrounds; and Krystal&#8217;s relationship with her mother and stepfather improves once she&#8217;s realizes her parents are never getting back together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Manifest: A Mystyx Novel Author: Artist Arthur Publisher: Kimani Press TRU Source: Columbus Metropolitan Library Artist Arthur captures the essence of a teenage girl unhappy with her lot in life.\u00c2\u00a0 Her parents have divorced and her mother&#8217;s remarried.\u00c2\u00a0 Krystal Bentley no longer lives in New York City and has moved with her mother to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2813\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manifest: A Mystyx Novel by Artist Arthur<\/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":[362,377],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-artist-arthur","tag-manifest-a-mystyx-novel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","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=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2835,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}