{"id":14301,"date":"2010-04-03T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14301"},"modified":"2010-05-03T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:48:55","slug":"enrico-robin-jam-in-the-band-book-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14301","title":{"rendered":"Enrico, Robin – Jam in the Band Book One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jam in the Band Book One<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking back on my review for the preview of this book, it’s clear that I was taking a lot on faith, mostly based on the fact that Robin hasn’t really done anything that I’ve hated yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t like the preview, but what the heck, it was just a tiny thing and could be changed all kinds of ways by the time the first book was finished.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, let’s hear it for faith, as this book is fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0 This tells the story of three young women who choose to leave a small town and head out on tour.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re essentially leaping blindly, as they have one gig lined up but are going to make everything else up as they go along, and plan to spend months trapped in a tiny van together.\u00c2\u00a0 Things start off with Nathan, a male friend of the band, finding out by accident that the girls are playing a gig near where he lives, and that nobody has bothered to tell him about the show.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, at this point he hasn’t seen anybody in the band in three years… which naturally leads to an explanation of how everybody got where they are now.\u00c2\u00a0 Great setup to get everybody hooked in right away.\u00c2\u00a0 Robin also makes excellent use of fliers and small bit characters, documentary style, to flesh everybody else out.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly liked the people from high school who stayed trapped in their small town and their various reasons for never leaving, but then, I grew up in a small town like that too, so empathy always scores big points around here.\u00c2\u00a0 We only get to see the barest glimpse of what’s happening now, as the band plays their show and a romance starts off, destined to be long distance if it’s going anywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 The only tiny complaint I have is that the other members of the band could stand to be fleshed out a bit more: we see plenty of Bianca (lead singer), but only relative flashes of Corbin and Tiara.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, with this only being the first book of the series and with my previous faith in this so thoroughly rewarded, I see no reason to doubt Robin now.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out, on a page full of good comics this is one of the better ones you’ll find.\u00c2\u00a0 $10<\/p>\n

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Website Jam in the Band Book One Looking back on my review for the preview of this book, it’s clear that I was taking a lot on faith, mostly based on the fact that Robin hasn’t really done anything that I’ve hated yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t like the preview, but what the heck, it was just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1059,2750],"class_list":["post-14301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-jam-in-the-band","tag-robin-enrico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14302,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions\/14302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}