{"id":3058,"date":"2022-10-20T19:32:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T01:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2022-12-20T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:03:44","slug":"the-maidens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"The Maidens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Alex Michalides, 2021, Kindle Edition, Caladon Books <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"4.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I enjoyed reading this book very much.  Like his previous book, <em>The Silent Patient<\/em>, Michaelides kept me guessing throughout the book, and, in the end I guessed wrong.  He really does know how to throw a curve ball at his readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did figure out that the most likely villain was not the murderer, but I went for one of the other characters.  Maybe if he writes another novel, I will get it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book was a nice break from all the history I have been reading.  I guess I will have to bid farewell to fiction now as our book club is really in to biographies this year and I have a couple more to read.  Sigh! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alex Michalides, 2021, Kindle Edition, Caladon Books I enjoyed reading this book very much. Like his previous book, The Silent Patient, Michaelides kept me guessing throughout the book, and, in the end I guessed wrong. He really does know <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3058\"><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-3058","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\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}