{"id":349,"date":"2008-10-07T23:03:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2008-10-27T23:21:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T22:21:12","slug":"scorpion-trail-geoffrey-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/scorpion-trail-geoffrey-archer\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion Trail (Geoffrey Archer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fiction, 3\/10 &#8211; October 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/ScorpionTrail.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nI read this because I had got though all the other books on my holiday. It seemed to be war based so I was hoping for something action packed. Unfortunately, it wasn&#8217;t packed with action and wasn&#8217;t gripping. The characters didn&#8217;t come alive for me and I didn&#8217;t find the tense parts very tense. I found the love story was nonsense because I didn&#8217;t understand two people drifting into each other so rarely but so intensely. I did enjoy the MI5\/spy sections and enjoyed getting an insight into the problems with Bosnia and ethic cleansing that occurred 10 years ago.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction, 3\/10 &#8211; October 2008 I read this because I had got though all the other books on my holiday. It seemed to be war based so I was hoping for something action packed. Unfortunately, it wasn&#8217;t packed with action and wasn&#8217;t gripping. The characters didn&#8217;t come alive for me and I didn&#8217;t find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}