{"id":1148,"date":"2015-05-26T12:18:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2015-05-26T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:18:22","slug":"the-first-review-of-murphy-at-the-blogger-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-first-review-of-murphy-at-the-blogger-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Review of Murphy at The Blogger Girls!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JustJen says:<\/p>\n<p><em>I just love when I read a follow up story and hearing the characters\u2019 voices brings back all the memories of what I loved from the first book. Murphy and Sarge definitely did that for me here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Aside from a new leg and some upgraded parts, it is the same Murphy and the same Sarge, doing what they do best, in all their glory. This is classified as BDSM, but they really have more of a DS and power exchange than any kind of traditional BDSM relationship. At this point, they are even more comfortable in their relationship as they now prepare for their next mission. The chapters switch between each character so that we get to see things from both perspectives. I absolutely love their dialog and the way they each speak. I smiled so many times at little things they said that make each stand out so distinctly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggergirls.com\/2015\/05\/26\/book-review-murphy-by-bey-deckard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest at The Blogger Girls<\/a> + Check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggergirls.com\/2015\/05\/26\/honorary-blogger-bey-deckard-novelettes-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-short-form-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\">guest post<\/a> for a giveaway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JustJen says: I just love when I read a follow up story and hearing the characters\u2019 voices brings back all the memories of what I loved from the first book. Murphy and Sarge definitely did that for me here. Aside from a new leg and some upgraded parts, it is the same Murphy and the same Sarge, doing what they do best, in all their glory. This is classified as BDSM, but they really have more of a DS and power exchange than any kind of traditional BDSM relationship. At this point, they are even more comfortable in their relationship &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The First Review of Murphy at The Blogger Girls!\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-first-review-of-murphy-at-the-blogger-girls\/#more-1148\" aria-label=\"Read more about The First Review of Murphy at The Blogger Girls!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[301],"tags":[187,81,144,48,309,11,60,143,310,311,281],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murphy","tag-5-star","tag-bdsm","tag-ds","tag-erotica","tag-justjen","tag-mm-romance","tag-review","tag-sci-fi","tag-scify","tag-space-marines","tag-the-blogger-girls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/murphy-cover-full-res.png?fit=1668%2C2506&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1378,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/sarge-1-year-anniversary-sale\/","url_meta":{"origin":1148,"position":0},"title":"Sarge &#8211; 1 Year Anniversary Sale","author":"Bey","date":"October 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"How could I forget this on Friday? 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