{"id":873,"date":"2008-05-24T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=873"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:28:15","slug":"mystery_just_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/mystery_just_on.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery: Just One Look, by Harlan Coben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Since this month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/dads_and_my_rea.html\">challenge<\/a> is back to short stories, I find myself breaking it up a bit with short&#038;sweet mystery novels.  I know, right?  Bizarre.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyways&#8230;.I was reading for the next Myron Bolitar book but couldn&#8217;t find it on my way to the airport, so had to settle for a non-Myron Bolitar, the first stand-alone Coben I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p>I liked some of the characters, I liked the &#8220;figuring it out&#8221; stuff. But I thought the main mystery was both too convoluted and too improbable to really work.  Too many moving parts.  Still  kept you intrigued&#8230;but like an badly plotted action movie that wows you while you&#8217;re IN IT, but is too easy to pick apart afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this month&#8217;s challenge is back to short stories, I find myself breaking it up a bit with short&#038;sweet mystery novels. I know, right? Bizarre. Anyways&#8230;.I was reading for the next Myron Bolitar book but couldn&#8217;t find it on my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/mystery_just_on.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","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\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}