{"id":3116,"date":"2025-05-09T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2025-05-08T18:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:35:40","slug":"book-review-friday-sven-the-groundhog-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/book-review-friday-sven-the-groundhog-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review Friday: Sven the Groundhog #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/large-6078011-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/large-6078011-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/large-6078011.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sven is a groundhog, he&#8217;s from space and he&#8217;s here to save us, or at least that&#8217;s what the title implies. But when Sven&#8217;s first encounter with humans is the not-so-sober Sarah&#8230;and her car, things don&#8217;t really go as planned. And what comes next you will need to read to believe!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time, I ran a website where our main focus was to write comic reviews. Early on, I met this great guy named Dave. He worked for a company that I did reviews for. Fast forward more than a few years and now we&#8217;re both writing our own works and he&#8217;s started his own publishing house. It&#8217;s crazy how far we&#8217;ve both come. That being said, when Sven the Groundhog was announced as their first release, I jumped at the chance to back the Kickstarter and to read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no regrets. Let&#8217;s start with the quality of this book. Beautiful heavy cover and solid pages. I know that these kinds of things don&#8217;t matter to everyone, but as someone whose comics can get a bit manhandled, it&#8217;s good to see that this one is going to hold up to some serious reading. With this oversized issue comes engaging art and a story that I just couldn&#8217;t get enough of. Honestly, it&#8217;s been a while since I finished a comic and immediately regretted it because now comes to the painful waiting for issue #2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while this little review isn&#8217;t in my normal the good, the bad, the summary format, I can honestly say that you need to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbrainentertainment.com\/\">Weird Brain Entertainment<\/a> and beg them to sell you a copy of Sven. Then, after you read it, bug the heck out of Dave to get issue #2 out there because I need to know what happens next! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sven is a groundhog, he&#8217;s from space and he&#8217;s here to save us, or at least that&#8217;s what the title implies. But when Sven&#8217;s first encounter with humans is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53,6],"tags":[2040,2041],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-book-review","category-book-reviews","tag-comic","tag-weird-brain-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}