{"id":3429,"date":"2025-03-25T16:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:59:19","slug":"review-red-widow-by-alma-katsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-red-widow-by-alma-katsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Red Widow, by Alma Katsu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First of all, that&#8217;s a great title for a spy thriller.  But &#8220;Red Widow&#8221; is not a great spy thriller.  Having spent many hours reading it, I don&#8217;t see the point of the story.  Not all that much actually happens.  There is a sequel and quite a few loose ends but the characters didn&#8217;t feel real, there was no almost no sense of menace and the CIA described here &#8212; from the pre-Trump era &#8212; almost certainly doesn&#8217;t exist anymore (if it ever did).  Not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, that&#8217;s a great title for a spy thriller. But &#8220;Red Widow&#8221; is not a great spy thriller. Having spent many hours reading it, I don&#8217;t see the point of the story. Not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","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\/3429","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=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}