{"id":977,"date":"2008-08-17T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=977"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:11:37","slug":"mysteryfiction_-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/mysteryfiction_-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery\/Fiction: The Likeness, by Tana French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  Soooooo good.<\/p>\n<p>A follow-up of sorts to her debut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/mysteryfiction.html\">&#8220;In the Woods&#8221;<\/a>, taking the #2 character from that book and putting the focus on them (and I hear an auxiliary character in this book will be the focus of her third).<\/p>\n<p>Really intriguing mystery, characters that become sooooo real&#8230;  The descriptions are rich and thick, and the emotions are layered and tangled.<\/p>\n<p>French has just written two of the most interesting, and unusual, mysteries out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Soooooo good. A follow-up of sorts to her debut &#8220;In the Woods&#8221;, taking the #2 character from that book and putting the focus on them (and I hear an auxiliary character in this book will be the focus of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/mysteryfiction_-4.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":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}