{"id":2335,"date":"2021-09-03T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:14:29","slug":"review-a-slow-fire-burning-by-paula-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-a-slow-fire-burning-by-paula-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Slow Fire Burning, by Paula Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really liked <em>The Girl on the Train<\/em>, Paula Hawkins&#8217; first best-selling thriller, and approached this book with caution. One should always be prepared for disappointment following blockbuster books and their Hollywood adaptations.  But I was not disappointed: this story has elements in common with the earlier book, including complex female characters who struggle to be heard.  Hawkins makes these characters &#8211; who live and work in North London, not far from where I live &#8212; seem real.  There is a murder mystery at the heart of the story, but I found that to be a relatively easy puzzle to solve. The challenge of the book is finding answers to people&#8217;s lives, to their problems, some of which go back to childhood.  The fact that long after one puts the book down, one cares about those characters is testimony to Hawkins&#8217; talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins&#8217; first best-selling thriller, and approached this book with caution. One should always be prepared for disappointment following blockbuster books and their Hollywood adaptations. But I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}