{"id":809,"date":"2014-11-11T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:18:05","slug":"the-novel-approach-gives-sarge-4-5-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-novel-approach-gives-sarge-4-5-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Novel Approach Gives Sarge 4.5 Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa says:<\/p>\n<p>\"After the back-to-back epics that are\u00a0<em>Caged<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sacrificed<\/em>, Bey Deckard has taken a bit of a departure from both pirates and full-length novels with\u00a0<em>Sarge<\/em>, 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 fighting a war not of their own making.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to enumerate the ways in which this latest offering from Mr. Deckard differs from his Baal\u2019s Heart series, not the least of which is that this story is futuristic while Baal\u2019s Heart is set in a distant past. How they resemble each other, though, is twofold: first, there\u2019s the fantasy aspect\u2014this story being told from a time and place that is at once nondescript yet is an easily imagined setting, this time not the vastness of the world\u2019s oceans but the immensity of outer space, and the barren and rugged landscape of a far off planet. Second is this story\u2019s heroes, Sarge and Murphy, who, from page one, grab the reader\u2019s attention when the harsh and unforgiving reality of their circumstances becomes evident thanks to the author\u2019s vivid description of the action, the two men immersed in the thick of battlefield danger. These men are every bit as enigmatic and charismatic as their fictional pirate counterparts, though in different ways, and I was invested in their story right from the outset.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenovelapproachreviews.com\/2014\/10\/30\/review-sarge-by-bey-deckard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole review at The Novel Approach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa says: &#8220;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 fighting a war not of their own making. It would be easy to enumerate the ways in which this latest offering from Mr. Deckard differs from his Baal\u2019s Heart series, not the least of which is that this story is futuristic while Baal\u2019s Heart is set in a distant past. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Novel Approach Gives Sarge 4.5 Stars\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-novel-approach-gives-sarge-4-5-stars\/#more-809\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Novel Approach Gives Sarge 4.5 Stars\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732,"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":[179],"tags":[79,217,60,216],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sarge","tag-4-5stars","tag-lisa","tag-review","tag-the-novel-approach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sargepromo.jpg?fit=600%2C586&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2131,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/everything-on-sale-at-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":809,"position":0},"title":"Everything on sale at ARe :)","author":"Bey","date":"September 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"All my books are on sale* at ARe! 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The action is action, the sex is sex, the eroticism not something to miss, and the stories? Well, they are pretty amazing.\" Read the whole review at multitaskingmomma","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\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1181,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/murphy-another-fantastic-work-by-bey-deckard-joyfully-jay\/","url_meta":{"origin":809,"position":2},"title":"Murphy: &#8220;Another fantastic work by Bey Deckard&#8221; @ Joyfully Jay","author":"Bey","date":"June 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Michelle says: \"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Murphy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Murphy","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/category\/book-updates\/murphy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/murphy-cover-600x9001.png?fit=600%2C901&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/murphy-cover-600x9001.png?fit=600%2C901&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/murphy-cover-600x9001.png?fit=600%2C901&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":814,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/joyfully-jay-gives-sarge-5-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":809,"position":3},"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":738,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/fangirl-moments-and-my-two-cents-give-sarge-4-5-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":809,"position":4},"title":"Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents give Sarge 4.5 Stars!","author":"Bey","date":"October 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Toni says: \"This author's writing is so fresh. I read a lot and sometimes stories feel somewhat recycled, definitely not the case with anything Bey writes. Sarge is a sci-fi, futuristic, war, BDSM combo. It's short, but the wording is perfect, no repetition, exactly right for bringing the setting to\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":722,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-blogger-girls-give-sarge-4-5-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":809,"position":5},"title":"The Blogger Girls give Sarge 4.5 Stars!","author":"Bey","date":"October 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"JustJen says: \"This story pulled me in immediately, so that I felt as though I was in the trenches right there with Sarge and Murph. I\u2019m not usually a fan of sci-fi stories, but here, I was gobbling up every detail.\u00a0 I found the technical details to be extremely vivid\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\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murphy-sargepromo.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}