{"id":2331,"date":"2012-10-18T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2012-10-18T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:18:14","slug":"merit-is-one-of-the-best-heroines-i-have-ever-come-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Merit is one of the best heroines I have ever come across. . .&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/blog\/happyeverafter\/\">Happy Ever After\/USA Today<\/a> for including the Chicagoland Vampires in today&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;Tis the Season for Fangs and Flirting&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of what they said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Why you should read this series:<\/strong> When I picked up the first book, Some Girls Bite, I was expecting a cookie-cutter vampire book \u2026 but, oh man, Chloe blew my expectations out of the water, and her writing literally demanded that I put this author on my auto-buy list. Merit is one of the best heroines I have ever come across, and the Chicagoland world is dark, sensual and action-packed. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/happyeverafter\/2012\/10\/17\/vampire-series-argeneau-vampires-chicagoland-vampires\/1640519\/\">rest of the article here<\/a>&#8211;and get recommendations for new-to-you fanged reads. Thanks again, HEA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the fine folks at Happy Ever After\/USA Today for including the Chicagoland Vampires in today&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;Tis the Season for Fangs and Flirting&#8221; feature. Here&#8217;s a bit of what they said: Why you should read this series: When I picked up the first book, Some Girls Bite, I was expecting a cookie-cutter vampire book<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=2331\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,35,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-chicagoland-vampires","category-merit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}