{"id":7034,"date":"2026-04-30T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:00:06","slug":"meerkat-books-books-reviews-destinys-boot-the-barsian-job-book-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=7034","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Books: Books Reviews: Destiny&#8217;s Boot (The Barsian Job Book 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the quirks about this book is that I got a free pen out of it! Not just any pen, a pen that doubles up as a stylus for my phone. I was most pleased by this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enough about the pen (which is a lovely purple colour and easy to write with). No, seriously, enough about the pen. What about <em>Destiny&#8217;s Boot<\/em>, by FJ Mitchell? Well, it&#8217;s certainly a quirky <s>boot<\/s> book, filled with vibrant characters, representing a variety of fantastical species. It blends magic and mayhem with mysterious pasts, dodgy contracts and classic piracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eclectic characters include a captain who is outwardly jovial but also takes his loyalty to his crew very seriously, an avian best described as a kick-ass parrot with a strong faith, and a deeply close relationship between a woman and the demon who owns her soul and lives in a sword. Throw in pretty much every other fantasy creature there is into this mix, along with a deadly quest, and you have yourself the ingredients of a page-turner. I certainly couldn&#8217;t put <em>Destiny&#8217;s Boot<\/em> down, and it made perfect sense to ask for the sequel for Christmas. I loved this book, and I look forward to the third part!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10\/10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=816\">Back to Meerkat Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the quirks about this book is that I got a free pen out of it! Not just any pen, a pen that doubles up as a stylus for my phone. I was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/v0vh99-e1763980834997.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7037,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions\/7037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}