{"id":78,"date":"2013-04-30T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-04-30T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:52:19","slug":"jen-reads-a-bat-in-the-belfry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2013\/04\/30\/jen-reads-a-bat-in-the-belfry\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: A Bat In The Belfry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15799157-a-bat-in-the-belfry\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Bat in the Belfry (Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery)\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1344371935m\/15799157.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15799157-a-bat-in-the-belfry\">A Bat in the Belfry<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/29183.Sarah_Graves\">Sarah Graves<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/528597629\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A BAT IN THE BELFRY was a fun introduction to the Home Repair is Homicide series of cozy mysteries. This one is a little darker than some of the other cozies I&#8217;ve read, both literally (with the nor&#8217;easter bearing down on the town) and the murder (bullying and dreams dashed), but it was well written and the story pulled me along so I was curious to know whodunit. The home tips were nice to read, since I&#8217;m a relatively new homeowner. I also can&#8217;t believe I climbed around so many decrepit structures when I was at my grandparents&#8217; when I was little; so many things could have been wrong with them as illustrated by the collapsing steeple in this novel! I&#8217;m glad I got to read this book, and if I come across others in the series, it will be nice to recall that I didn&#8217;t have trouble figuring out what was going on in this one, so I could pick them up out of order. The characters have some depth, even though they&#8217;re well established, and I liked the way the outsider new character adapted.<\/p>\n<p>Received 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=&amp;text=See book on Amazon]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bat in the Belfry by Sarah Graves My rating: 3 of 5 stars A BAT IN THE BELFRY was a fun introduction to the Home Repair is Homicide series <a href=\"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2013\/04\/30\/jen-reads-a-bat-in-the-belfry\/\" 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":"Jen reads: A Bat In The Belfry","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":[16,18,40,43],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-cozy","tag-crime","tag-mystery","tag-netgalley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-1g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}