{"id":40359,"date":"2025-08-02T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40359\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:32:09","slug":"book-review-cheon-seon-rans-the-midnight-shift-is-a-fresh-take-on-vampire-lore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40359\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Cheon Seon-ran\u2019s The Midnight Shift is a fresh take on vampire lore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">By Cheon Seon-ran, translated by Gene Png <br \/>Fiction\/Bloomsbury\/Paperback\/304 pages\/$30.87<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Fans have long known that seemingly pulpy genres like science fiction, fantasy and horror can offer some of the most resonant metaphors for real life. These readers will be well pleased with South Korean writer Cheon Seon-ran\u2019s fluid remake of the vampire myth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BooksBook reviewAuthorsSouth Korea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Cheon Seon-ran, translated by Gene Png Fiction\/Bloomsbury\/Paperback\/304 pages\/$30.87 Fans have long known that seemingly pulpy genres like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-40359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}