{"id":2111,"date":"2017-08-24T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2017-08-24T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:46:18","slug":"the-black-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"The Black House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter May, 2009, Quercus, New York, London<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I come across a book I really, really like and this is one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly liked the author&#8217;s descriptive writing.\u00c2\u00a0 His way of describing the surroundings is almost poetic and creates a compelling backdrop to whatever is going on in the novel.\u00c2\u00a0 I also liked his characters as they seemed to\u00c2\u00a0be real people.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I would get frustrated with Fin, the main character, as he would not behave the way I wanted him to behave, but that&#8217;s what makes for an interesting individual.\u00c2\u00a0 The plot was well constructed, although the mystery that was at the heart of the story sometimes got a bit lost in the emotions and\u00c2\u00a0interactions of the characters.<\/p>\n<p>The book takes place in the Outer Hebrides which are in the northwest of Scotland.\u00c2\u00a0 The author clearly has a strong connection and understanding of the people and the land.\u00c2\u00a0 I experienced an enjoyable reading of the book but I also took away an appreciation of this part of the world that I didn&#8217;t have prior to reading it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was well done.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that this is the first book of a trilogy.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only hope that the other two books are as good as this one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-5.gif\" alt=\"4 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter May, 2009, Quercus, New York, London Occasionally I come across a book I really, really like and this is one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly liked the author&#8217;s descriptive writing.\u00c2\u00a0 His way of describing the surroundings is almost poetic <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2111\"><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":[5,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}