{"id":2427,"date":"2019-06-08T05:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2019-06-08T05:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T11:44:35","slug":"the-witch-elm-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"The Witch Elm: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tana French, 2018, Audiobook narrated by Paul Nugent, 2018, Penguin Audio<\/p>\n<p>This is a novel about a young man in Ireland who gets involved in a murder of one of his school mates.&nbsp; The book starts out with a break-in to his apartment when he is severely injured.&nbsp; The book seems to focus on his attempts to come to grips with what kind of person he is and has been in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the book is about two times as long as it needs to be.&nbsp; Some of the conversations go on and on to the point where they are tedious.&nbsp; One might argue that this is necessary to define and develop the characters, which it does, but at the expense of enjoying the novel.&nbsp; The tone of the book is dark, and it keeps descending into that darkness right up to the end, which is horrific and totally destroyed my appreciation of the book.<\/p>\n<p>The writing is decent and the narration is really good.&nbsp; My advice to a reader, however, would be to put the book down and go on to something else before you get near the end. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2.0 stars\" alt=\"2.0 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tana French, 2018, Audiobook narrated by Paul Nugent, 2018, Penguin Audio This is a novel about a young man in Ireland who gets involved in a murder of one of his school mates.&nbsp; The book starts out with a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2427\"><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],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","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=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}