{"id":42969,"date":"2025-12-31T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42969"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:01:14","slug":"the-first-shot-the-bourbon-chronicles-1-by-lance-lassen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42969","title":{"rendered":"The First Shot (The Bourbon Chronicles #1) by Lance Lassen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A high-speed romp with an unexpected emotional core.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lassen launches The Bourbon Chronicles with a high-velocity opening that blends outlaw humanity, hard physics, and bourbon-fueled survival. When 23-year-old physics prodigy Bill Griffin perfects the first wormhole drive, he expects history, not exile. A botched escape strands Bill and his billionaire uncle Sketch in a galaxy where Earth is forbidden and humans are feared as cosmic liabilities. Armed with a failing ship, an anxious AI, and bourbon that turns enemies into allies, Bill is forced into an impossible mission, but can a young genius survive a universe that already judged humanity guilty?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill\u2019s synesthesia grounds abstract physics in lived sensation, while his bond with Sketch adds warmth and humor; Kathryn, supplies sharp comedy and subtle questions of consciousness. As the crew grows, the found-family dynamic unfolds organically, never stalling the plot. Governed by bureaucracy, criminal syndicates, and long-held judgments against Earth, the galaxy feels lived-in and faintly hostile. The quarantine of humanity reframes first contact as moral reckoning rather than discovery. Even the bourbon-fueled diplomacy, played for laughs, becomes a clever symbol of ingenuity and cultural exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A confident opening to a promising series with ambition, heart, and momentum to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Coming soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher Lansing E. Bachelder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Lance-Lassen\/author\/B0F1DRMBZ9?ref=ap_rdr&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Lance-Lassen\/author\/B0F1DRMBZ9?ref=ap_rdr&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Author website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-speed romp with an unexpected emotional core. Lassen launches The Bourbon Chronicles with a high-velocity opening that blends outlaw humanity, hard physics, and bourbon-fueled survival. When 23-year-old physics prodigy Bill Griffin perfects the first wormhole drive, he expects history, not exile. A botched escape strands Bill and his billionaire uncle Sketch in a galaxy where Earth is forbidden and humans are feared as cosmic liabilities. Armed with a failing ship, an anxious AI, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":42972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[723770808],"tags":[7223,91,3328,178,723771287,1136176,723769804,723769803,723771422,723769805,1473,1008073,856121,309,723770756,483133,723771424,723771423,723771425,349],"class_list":["post-42969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-fi","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-goodreads","tag-indie-books","tag-kindle","tag-kobo","tag-lance-lassen","tag-nook","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-sci-fi","tag-space-opera","tag-the-bourbon-chronicles","tag-the-first-shot","tag-the-first-shot-the-bourbon-chronicles-1","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-bb3","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-30-6.56.29-PM.png?fit=387%2C607&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42973,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969\/revisions\/42973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}