{"id":12542,"date":"2025-06-18T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:40:45","slug":"fiends-for-hire-curse-returners-defiance-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/fiends-for-hire-curse-returners-defiance-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"FIENDS FOR HIRE -CURSE- &#038; Returner&#8217;s Defiance IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fiends-Hire-Curse-Drim-ebook\/dp\/B0F44HZ6CN\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiends for Hire novel<\/a> starts out a little shaky only to pick up quite nicely once the two protagonists join up. It even manages to stay engaging through the addition of a third fiend. The fourth though&#8230; the acquisition of the fourth fiend and the events that follow unfortunately do not work at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bruce-Sentar\/e\/B082S6QKGK\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Sentar<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0FCDPDJDT\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/returners-defiance-1-3-the-grand-imperial-prince-1-2\/\" title=\"Returner\u2019s Defiance #1-3 &#038; The Grand Imperial Prince #1-2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Returner&#8217;s Defiance<\/a> novel charts the initial moves of the demon lord&#8217;s invasion and the protagonist&#8217;s struggles to keep up with an ever-increasing number of timeline deviations. For the most part it&#8217;s solid enough, but the way it ends has me fearing there&#8217;s going to be a repeat of the Vault sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This first Fiends for Hire novel starts out a little shaky only to pick up quite nicely once the two protagonists join up. It even manages to stay engaging through the addition of a third fiend. The fourth though&#8230; the acquisition of the fourth fiend and the events that follow unfortunately do not work at all. Bruce Sentar&#8216;s fourth Returner&#8217;s Defiance novel charts the initial moves of the demon lord&#8217;s invasion and the protagonist&#8217;s struggles to keep up with an ever-increasing number of timeline deviations. For the most part it&#8217;s solid enough, but the way it ends has me fearing there&#8217;s going to be a repeat of the Vault sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1081,1113,1114,29,1079,30],"class_list":["post-12542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-bruce-sentar","tag-drim","tag-fiends-for-hire","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-returners-defiance","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}