{"id":3571,"date":"2024-05-02T21:58:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T03:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T03:58:03","slug":"the-year-of-the-locust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Locust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Terry Hayes, 2024, Emily Bestler Books (an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife gave me this book for my birthday, and when I saw it I couldn&#8217;t wait to read it because I enjoyed his previous book, <em>I am Pilgrim<\/em>, so much.  Let me say it was a bit of a disappointment.  It seems that he threw everything he could think of into this book, terrorists, Russians, time travel, the CIA, outer space, romance) and it didn&#8217;t seem to make it a better book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought about chance and circumstance after reading <em>I Am Pilgrim<\/em> and was wondering if he took it a bit too far to the point where I would lose my belief and lose the enjoyment of the book, but I decided that since it was a work of fiction, the author had liberty to stretch it a bit.  I think Hayes did take it way too far, and I was constantly shaking my head as I read this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite my unbelief, the book reads very quickly despite being 787 pages long.  Hayes writes short chapters and there is a lot of white space on many of the pages. It is somewhat of a page turner, but the plot is overdone.  Maybe he will tone it down a bit when he writes his third book, having looked back on this one and realizing his mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Terry Hayes, 2024, Emily Bestler Books (an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster) My wife gave me this book for my birthday, and when I saw it I couldn&#8217;t wait to read it because I enjoyed his previous book, I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3571\"><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":[15,47,46],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-spy","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}