{"id":48,"date":"2013-02-28T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=48"},"modified":"2013-02-28T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:03:12","slug":"jen-reads-the-murder-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2013\/02\/28\/jen-reads-the-murder-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: The Murder Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17318392-the-murder-bird\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Murder Bird: A Novel\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1361724250m\/17318392.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17318392-the-murder-bird\">The Murder Bird: A Novel<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/490893.Joanna_Hines\">Joanna Hines<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/540853919\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE MURDER BIRD gets better as it goes along. I picked this one up because one of the main characters is a cellist, and I love music. While this wasn&#8217;t a book that made me feel the music as some do, it had an interesting storyline: a mother presumably commits suicide, and her daughter is convinced she was murdered, though no one else does. It took a while to get into this one, perhaps because of the changing viewpoints (side note: maybe it was the advance e-copy I received, but there wasn&#8217;t any division between POVs, and quite often I found myself having to go back and reread a section once I realized the POV had shifted), but the mystery is gradually unraveled to most folks&#8217; satisfaction. There are some brilliant pieces of prose in this, and near the end the twists keep coming. It wasn&#8217;t quite as thrilling as some mysteries, though there are certainly action sequences, and I didn&#8217;t guess the ending, which is always good for a mystery. I have another book by this author in the pipeline, so I hope it&#8217;s good too.<\/p>\n<p>I received this as a digital ARC via Netgalley and the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/76111-jennifer\">View all my reviews<\/a><br \/>\n[amazon asin=B00B4V7QLA&amp;text=See book on Amazon]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Murder Bird: A Novel by Joanna Hines My rating: 4 of 5 stars THE MURDER BIRD gets better as it goes along. I picked this one up because one <a href=\"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2013\/02\/28\/jen-reads-the-murder-bird\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,18,39,40,43],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-british","tag-crime","tag-music","tag-mystery","tag-netgalley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}