{"id":6237,"date":"2011-07-18T19:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2011-07-18T19:09:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:09:36","slug":"the-family-trade-the-merchant-princes-1-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/the-family-trade-the-merchant-princes-1-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes #1) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17861.The_Family_Trade\"><img src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1166854363m\/17861.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes, #1)\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17861.The_Family_Trade\">The Family Trade<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8794.Charles_Stross\">Charles Stross<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/186175280\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes #1) is a fantastic read from Charles Stross.  It is a great blend of fantasy, and some science fiction\/fantasy elements blended it.<\/p>\n<p>The basic premise is that an investigative reporter in our world, finds her heritage of being able to transport to other parallel worlds.  For example, an early 1800&#8217;s colonial america&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great change from Accelerando&#8230;.  My only complaint is that the novel doesn&#8217;t have a solid conclusion.  It is an excellent start to the series, and I am already up to Book 3&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The scope of the series covers alternate history, economics, spy thriller, and drama&#8230; Maybe a small dose of romance as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/5711578-benjamin-schollnick\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Trade by Charles Stross My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes #1) is a fantastic read from Charles Stross. It is a great blend of fantasy, and some science fiction\/fantasy elements blended it. The basic premise is that an investigative reporter in our world, finds her heritage of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/the-family-trade-the-merchant-princes-1-review\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1478],"tags":[1086],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->