{"id":1182,"date":"2013-10-15T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2013-10-11T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T21:27:40","slug":"green-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/green-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1177\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"Cover of Green Thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/green-thumb.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/781279032\">Tom Cardamone. Green Thumb.\u00a0BrazenHead\/Lethe Press, 2012. PB. 142p. $13. 978-1-59021-367-4.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author of Pumpkin Teeth: Stories and The Werewolves of Central Park introduces Leaf, a young boy who was changed from human to a cross between human and plant as his family and life were dying out. Alone on an island with his dying Nanny, Leaf survives through his ability to live like a plant on sunlight and rainwater.<\/p>\n<p>In a universe left destitute, many are mutants amidst pirates, suffering from lack of food and order in a world rewarding the fittest and strongest. Leaf attempts to save a friend\u2019s father from the pirates but fails.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to follow and weak in plot, the graphic sex scenes are not only couples but also group as Leafe encounters love, lust, rape, and forced sex.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of alternate universes will be disappointed as will those seeking a book of young love.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <strong>s.n.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cardamone. Green Thumb.\u00a0BrazenHead\/Lethe Press, 2012. PB. 142p. $13. 978-1-59021-367-4.\u00a0 The author of Pumpkin Teeth: Stories and The Werewolves of Central Park introduces Leaf, a young boy who was changed from human to a cross between human and plant as his family and life were dying out. Alone on an island with his dying Nanny, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}