{"id":2433,"date":"2019-06-21T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2019-06-21T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:20:28","slug":"the-chessmen-the-lewis-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"The Chessmen: The Lewis Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter May, 2016, Quercus, Reprint Edition<\/p>\n<p>This is the final novel in The Lewis Trilogy which is a series of mysteries that occur on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides.&nbsp; This book is perhaps not quite as good as the other two, but it is still a good story.&nbsp; May&#8217;s descriptive passages are poetic and his characters are very well developed.&nbsp; This book lags a bit in places and is not as suspenseful as the other two.&nbsp; It, however, seems to provide a bit more history and background of the island than the other two.&nbsp; If you have read the other two, it is almost mandatory that you finish up with this one. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3.5 stars\" alt=\"3.5 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter May, 2016, Quercus, Reprint Edition This is the final novel in The Lewis Trilogy which is a series of mysteries that occur on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides.&nbsp; This book is perhaps not quite as good <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2433\"><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-2433","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\/2433","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=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}