{"id":1915,"date":"2015-12-11T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2015-12-11T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:04:50","slug":"into-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Into the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tana French, 2007, Penguin Books<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely a different kind of mystery.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of action, the author focuses on the psychology of the detective who is also the narrator of the story.\u00c2\u00a0 The reader is exposed to all of\u00c2\u00a0his thoughts and emotions as he goes through the steps to solve this murder.<\/p>\n<p>Since the detective is the primary character (i.e., hero) of the story, one would expect him to succeed not only in solving the murder, but also to receive recognition and rewards for so doing.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t expect this book to come out\u00c2\u00a0that way in the end.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed reading the book but it got a bit bogged down in it&#8217;s later stages.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, I was expecting some kind of\u00c2\u00a0unexpected &#8220;twist&#8221; toward the end.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing like that occurred so I was a bit disappointed as I put it down.\u00c2\u00a0 The book was an interesting read but I certainly wouldn&#8217;t rave about it.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tana French, 2007, Penguin Books This is definitely a different kind of mystery.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of action, the author focuses on the psychology of the detective who is also the narrator of the story.\u00c2\u00a0 The reader is exposed to all <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1915\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,36],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}