{"id":2741,"date":"2006-11-30T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:55","slug":"rabid-felines-rhinestones-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Rabid Felines, Rhinestones & Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

This book is a 2006 Cybil Award<\/a> Nominee for YA Fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jas Callihan is seventeen, and she believes that everyone has a super power. Really. Her 25-year-old stepmother’s (that’s right – STEPmother) has a super power for not making people mad — which is miraculous, since most people would<\/em> in fact be pretty steamed to have a stepmother only nine years older than they are. Unfortunately, Jasmine’s superpower is for being in the totally wrong place at the totally, TOTALLY wrong time. She can’t believe it — even though she’s on VACATION in Las Vegas, doing nothing more exciting than sunning herself on a lounge and eyeing a hot guy named Jack across from her at the pool, she totally ruins a wedding, gets attacked by a mad, three-legged cat, and gets arrested by hotel security while in her bikini. For basically doing nothing!<\/p>\n

Okay, so she sort of kidnaps the cat. But the little kid said…. Oh, wait. Right. It’s not all that bright to do what little kids say. I mean, who knows what they’re talking about, right? It’s better to sleuth out the facts yourself.<\/p>\n

A Fabio-esque guy in Speedos — with a gun, crazy best buds Polly, Roxy and Tom, an evil (and ditzy) cousin, and one Bad Kitty<\/a> take Jasmine’s Las Vegas vacation over the top. This is a silly, fun, fast-paced fluff read with fast-paced, sardonic dialogue and amusing footnotes. And a BeDazzler<\/a>. Because you’ve got to understand, no mystery is complete without rhinestoned disguises. Even if your vacations never include murder mysteries, this is a reasonable “beach book bag” read. Though at times in this wacky, surreal, lightweight mystery it’s hard to believe or take seriously the idea that someone has died<\/i>, it is still as uncomplicated and enjoyable as cotton candy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book is a 2006 Cybil Award Nominee for YA Fiction. Jas Callihan is seventeen, and she believes that everyone has a super power….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}