{"id":1181,"date":"2015-06-10T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2015-06-10T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:38:55","slug":"murphy-another-fantastic-work-by-bey-deckard-joyfully-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/murphy-another-fantastic-work-by-bey-deckard-joyfully-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy: &#8220;Another fantastic work by Bey Deckard&#8221; @ Joyfully Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle says:<\/p>\n<p>\"Another fantastic work by Bey Deckard and equal time must be devoted to discussing the story line, characters, and the words themselves. The story picks up shortly after the devastation of their last mission in <a title=\"Review: Sarge by Bey Deckard\" href=\"http:\/\/joyfullyjay.com\/2014\/11\/review-sarge-by-bey-deckard\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sarge<\/em><\/a>. The book is written in first person, present tense that is spectacularly executed. The author crafts the story so we are looking out at the world alternately through the eyes of both Sarge and Murphy and we know what they know and see what they see.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy is sure and steady when it comes to his feelings for Sarge. It\u2019s Sarge that is becoming blindsided by his feelings for Murphy. There is a constant internal push and pull as Sarge struggles on how much he wants to let Murphy in. On the outside, Sarge is emotionally impaired and a product of his military environment, but we don\u2019t only see him from the outside. It is entertaining to watch his emotional range as Murphy keeps encroaching on his heart and there is unexpected humor rounding out their interactions.<\/p>\n<p>The language, especially for Sarge, is appropriately gruff and it cuts right through to the core of the characters. The narrative is bare and stripped down while fully conveying every movement needed to fully bring the characters, as well as the setting, into full living color as Deckard creates three dimensional characters one brilliant word at a time. I found my eyes retracing phrases as I was reading as the language is perfectly chosen and offers the characters every single thing they need.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joyfullyjay.com\/2015\/06\/review-murphy-by-bey-deckard-f-i-s-t-s-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole, amazing review here at Joyfully Jay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle says: &#8220;Another fantastic work by Bey Deckard and equal time must be devoted to discussing the story line, characters, and the words themselves. The story picks up shortly after the devastation of their last mission in Sarge. The book is written in first person, present tense that is spectacularly executed. The author crafts the story so we are looking out at the world alternately through the eyes of both Sarge and Murphy and we know what they know and see what they see. Murphy is sure and steady when it comes to his feelings for Sarge. It\u2019s Sarge that &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Murphy: &#8220;Another fantastic work by Bey Deckard&#8221; @ Joyfully Jay\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/murphy-another-fantastic-work-by-bey-deckard-joyfully-jay\/#more-1181\" aria-label=\"Read more about Murphy: &#8220;Another fantastic work by Bey Deckard&#8221; @ Joyfully Jay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1149,"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":[187,195,196,14,60],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murphy","tag-5-star","tag-joyfully-jay","tag-michelle","tag-murphy","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/murphy-cover-600x9001.png?fit=600%2C901&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-j3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":814,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/joyfully-jay-gives-sarge-5-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":1181,"position":0},"title":"Joyfully Jay gives Sarge 5 Stars!","author":"Bey","date":"November 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Michelle says: \"While in a futuristic setting complete with a visual of the world they are in, there is an almost equal balance of character development interwoven throughout the story where one would not work without the other. Deckard weaves a theme through his books of the men who long\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sarge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sarge","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/category\/book-updates\/sarge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sarge-nominations.png?fit=600%2C283&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sarge-nominations.png?fit=600%2C283&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sarge-nominations.png?fit=600%2C283&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-novel-approach-gives-sarge-4-5-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":1181,"position":1},"title":"The Novel Approach Gives Sarge 4.5 Stars","author":"Bey","date":"November 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Lisa says: \"After the back-to-back epics that are\u00a0Caged\u00a0and\u00a0Sacrificed, Bey Deckard has taken a bit of a departure from both pirates and full-length novels with\u00a0Sarge, a sci-fi novella set on a war-torn planet where to kill or to be killed is the underscore of each day for the men and women\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sarge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sarge","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/category\/book-updates\/sarge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sargepromo.jpg?fit=600%2C586&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sargepromo.jpg?fit=600%2C586&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sargepromo.jpg?fit=600%2C586&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1170,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/f-i-s-t-s-handbook-for-individual-survival-in-hostile-environments\/","url_meta":{"origin":1181,"position":2},"title":"F.I.S.T.S. 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All Romance eBooks *rebates are in equivalent eBook dollars redeemable at ARe for future purchases.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Promo&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Promo","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/category\/promo-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"image","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-300x150.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}