{"id":14762,"date":"2019-02-19T06:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=14762"},"modified":"2019-02-16T19:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T01:42:41","slug":"book-7-of-52-the-kept-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/book-7-of-52-the-kept-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 7 (of 52) &#8211; The Kept Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14771\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14771\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kept Woman &#8211; Karin Slaughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Kept Woman<\/em>, the 8th entry in author Karin Slaughter&#8217;s Will Trent series, follows a team of state investigators as they work the death of a former Atlanta police detective and a missing and injured loved one of one of their own.\u00a0 As their investigation continues, they find it ties into a previous case, involving NBA superstars and the rape of a young girl.<\/p>\n<p>My first experience with Slaughter&#8217;s work, a stand alone story outside of the Trent series, came <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/book-9-of-52-pretty-girls\/\">last year<\/a> and was very enjoyable.\u00a0 Had I known this was part book was part of a series, I might have been hesitant to pick it up, but there really isn&#8217;t any indication on the cover.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying I didn&#8217;t enjoy this effort, but there were some plot points that seemed a little far fetched, and I&#8217;m not sure if that is inherent in the series or just part of this outing.\u00a0 The interconnectedness between all of the players, and the number of them who were ex-cops, despite being bad actors, did pull me out of the story a bit.\u00a0 But, overall, it was an enjoyable read.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got some more of her work sitting around and I&#8217;m looking forward to giving it another try.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kept Woman, the 8th entry in author Karin Slaughter&#8217;s Will Trent series, follows a team of state investigators as they work the death of a former Atlanta police detective and a missing and injured loved one of one of their own.\u00a0 As their investigation continues, they find it ties into a previous case, involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8099,8255,8254],"class_list":["post-14762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-nba","tag-the-kept-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762\/revisions\/14800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}