{"id":1375,"date":"2010-02-06T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2011-10-29T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T19:01:52","slug":"mysteryfiction_-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/mysteryfiction_-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery\/Fiction: The First Rule; a Joe Pike Novel, by Robert Crais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got too bored with Elvis Cole to read anymore of those* but good grief I love me some Joe Pike. It&#8217;s possible I love Joe Pike more than Jack Reacher^ even because it just seems like while Jack Reacher would be my big brotherly uncle type, Joe Pike would be you know more interesting to me in the sack.  Plus I TOTALLY want his tattoos.  Totes.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s hot, and also the coolest customer out there (never lets himself lose his temper which you do occasionally see from Reacher), the mystery is interesting, there&#8217;s some lies\/twists\/turns but not so many that you want to hang yourself.  And at the end, as in the first Joe Pike-centered book, there&#8217;s that hint of more humanity than one would guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Joe.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. I read this in bed on my iPhone when I couldn&#8217;t sleep. \ud83d\ude42  Then I couldn&#8217;t sleep because I couldn&#8217;t stop reading.<\/p>\n<p>*Joe Pike was originally the sidekick in the Elvis Cole series.  This is the second Joe Pike-focused book. I don&#8217;t remember Elvis appearing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/mystery_the_wat.html\">the first book<\/a> (did he?) but in this one he gets to be Joe&#8217;s sidekick instead.<\/p>\n<p>^The Jack Reacher series is by a different author, Lee Child.  If you type either of their names into that search box on the right, you&#8217;ll get a few hits.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got too bored with Elvis Cole to read anymore of those* but good grief I love me some Joe Pike. It&#8217;s possible I love Joe Pike more than Jack Reacher^ even because it just seems like while Jack Reacher &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/mysteryfiction_-5.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}