{"id":2097,"date":"2026-09-04T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:06:33","slug":"100-word-book-review-captain-moxley-and-the-embers-of-the-empire-by-dan-hanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/2026\/09\/04\/100-word-book-review-captain-moxley-and-the-embers-of-the-empire-by-dan-hanks\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Word Book Review &#8211; Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire by Dan Hanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhanks.com\/captain-moxley-and-the-embers-of-the-empire\">This book<\/a> has been on my TBR list since I snapped a picture of the cover in Powell&#8217;s a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set in the post-WWII era, Captain Samantha Moxley (a former Spitfire pilot), her sister Jessica, Jessica\u2019s boyfriend (both archeologists), and Sam\u2019s mentor (an archeologist and former Spitfire pilot) chase down a mystical artifact while avoiding Sam\u2019s former US Government coworkers (monsters, ex-Nazis, and Sam\u2019s ex-boyfriend). I should have loved it; it was okay. I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but when I wasn\u2019t, I was ambivalent. (I had to renew the library loan to finish it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book has been on my TBR list since I snapped a picture of the cover in Powell&#8217;s a few years ago. Set in the post-WWII era, Captain Samantha Moxley (a former Spitfire pilot), her sister Jessica, Jessica\u2019s boyfriend (both archeologists), and Sam\u2019s mentor (an archeologist and former Spitfire pilot) chase down a mystical artifact while avoiding Sam\u2019s former US Government coworkers (monsters, ex-Nazis, and Sam\u2019s ex-boyfriend). I should have loved it; it was okay. I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but when I wasn\u2019t, I was ambivalent. (I had to renew the library loan to finish it.) 3 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,15,61],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-words-on","category-books","category-reviews","tag-100-words","tag-book-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75MAh-xP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CptMoxley.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}