{"id":513,"date":"2019-01-29T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/?p=513"},"modified":"2019-01-29T15:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:58:57","slug":"fence-vol-1-by-c-s-pacat-illustrated-by-johanna-the-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/2019\/01\/29\/fence-vol-1-by-c-s-pacat-illustrated-by-johanna-the-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fence Vol. 1 by C.S. Pacat; illustrated by Johanna the Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-515 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/fence-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/fence-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/fence.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>&#8220;Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is an outsider to the competitive fencing world. Filled with raw talent but lacking proper training, he signs up for a competition that puts him head-to-head with fencing prodigy Seiji Katayama&#8230;and on the road to the elite all-boys school Kings Row. A chance at a real team and a place to belong awaits him\u2014if he can make the cut!&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/36064768-fence?ac=1&amp;from_search=true\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/2018\/11\/08\/check-please-hockey-vol-1\/\">Check, Please!<\/a> by Ngozi Ukazu, this is a suspenseful first installment to the comic series about fencing by best-selling M\/M romance author, C.S. Pacat. Beautifully rendered images are characterized by an emotionally affecting mixture of sharp lines contrasted with round, abstract ones. Pacat&#8217;s story features maximum drama with family secrets, personality-packed main characters, and an ensemble that is worth getting to know. The only problem here is how short it is; stay tuned as we await the next installments to the library!<\/p>\n<p>Call #\u00a0GN P113f<\/p>\n<p><em>Review by Vicki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is an outsider to the competitive fencing world. Filled with raw talent but lacking proper training, he signs up for a competition that puts him head-to-head with fencing prodigy Seiji Katayama&#8230;and on the road to the elite all-boys school Kings Row. A chance at a real team and a place to belong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,12,14,17,20,18],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asian-main-character","tag-diverse","tag-graphic-novel","tag-lgbtqia","tag-realistic","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}