{"id":741,"date":"2010-08-14T22:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T03:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2015-06-04T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T03:46:30","slug":"the-tenderness-of-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"The Tenderness of Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Stef Penney, 2006, Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, New York<\/p>\n<p>This book is an interesting read.\u00c2\u00a0 The structure is a bit unusual in that it is a series of chapters, each dealing with a particular character (although only the main character&#8217;s story, Mrs. Ross&#8217;s, is told in the first person).\u00c2\u00a0 There are multiple plots and subplots that take place, the primary plot being a murder and its effects on the various characters.\u00c2\u00a0 The setting of the book is the Canadian wilderness in the 1860&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the good aspects of the book, it suffers greatly from a lack of pace.\u00c2\u00a0 The lyrical and descriptive style with which it is written makes it difficult to\u00c2\u00a0maintain any degree of suspense which is a usual ingredient in any well-written murder mystery.\u00c2\u00a0 One would not expect the book to be a thriller, but it could definitely use a bit of juicing up.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stef Penney, 2006, Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, New York This book is an interesting read.\u00c2\u00a0 The structure is a bit unusual in that it is a series of chapters, each dealing with a particular character (although only the main <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=741\"><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-741","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\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}