{"id":3337,"date":"2024-11-25T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2024-11-25T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:35:18","slug":"review-sweetpea-by-c-j-skuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-sweetpea-by-c-j-skuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Sweetpea, by C.J. Skuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m almost embarrassed to say how much I enjoyed this book.  The best way to describe it is that it&#8217;s an updated version of <em>American Psycho<\/em> set in England of today, with a young female serial killer as the protagonist. The target audience seems to be people who are about fifty years younger than myself.  It&#8217;s clever and funny and you&#8217;ll hate yourself for rooting for Rhiannon &#8212; who, when you think about it a bit, is a monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m almost embarrassed to say how much I enjoyed this book. The best way to describe it is that it&#8217;s an updated version of American Psycho set in England of today, with a young female&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","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\/3337","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=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}