{"id":17851,"date":"2021-08-25T07:27:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17851"},"modified":"2021-08-22T17:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T23:40:03","slug":"book-33-of-52-choose-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/book-33-of-52-choose-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 33 (of 52) &#8211; Choose Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17852\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=17852\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17852\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17852\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chooseme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chooseme.jpg 338w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chooseme-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choose Me &#8211; Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a pretty, young co-ed falls to her death from her fifth floor balcony, the police are ready to chalk it up to suicide, but a missing cell phone causes them to dig deeper, investigating her former boyfriend and a professor who crossed a line with her.\u00a0 As all the evidence mounts in one place, a surprising suspect reveals himself.<\/p>\n<p>While I am familiar with Tess Gerritsen as the creator of <em>Rizzoli &amp; Isles<\/em>, <em>Choose Me<\/em> is my first actual exposure to her literary work.\u00a0 If I had to assume the breakdown here, I&#8217;d guess Gerritsen wrote the After chapters, about the police investigation, while Gary Braver wrote the Before chapters, about Taryn&#8217;s decent into madness and her affair with the professor.\u00a0 Which, if I do say so myself, is just slightly creepy, given his day job as a college professor.\u00a0 All told, this was a quick and mostly enjoyable read, but I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d go back for seconds.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;d still be open to Gerritsen on her own, but we will have to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a pretty, young co-ed falls to her death from her fifth floor balcony, the police are ready to chalk it up to suicide, but a missing cell phone causes them to dig deeper, investigating her former boyfriend and a professor who crossed a line with her.\u00a0 As all the evidence mounts in one place, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9754,9756,5301,9755],"class_list":["post-17851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-choose-me","tag-gary-braver","tag-rizzoli-isles","tag-tess-gerritsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17851","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17853,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17851\/revisions\/17853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}