{"id":24257,"date":"2026-05-06T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24257"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:29:45","slug":"book-23-of-52-the-first-time-i-saw-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/book-23-of-52-the-first-time-i-saw-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 23 (of 52) &#8211; The First Time I Saw Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24258\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tftish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24258\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24258\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tftish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tftish.jpg 333w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tftish-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The First Time I Saw Him &#8211; Laura Dave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Five years after her husband disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have acclimated to their new normal.\u00a0 When Bailey\u2019s grandfather Nicholas is reported to have died, though, they quickly find themselves back in danger and on the run once again.\u00a0 Thanks to mysterious messages Hannah has received from her missing husband, they head to France, where a surprise reunion leads them to a final gambit to ensure their safety and freedom forever.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Dave returns with <em>The First Time I Saw Him<\/em>, a sequel to 2021&#8217;s best-selling <em><a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/book-10-of-52-the-last-thing-he-told-me\/\">The Last Thing He Told Me<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know that a sequel was narratively needed, but I suppose its success, both in book-form and on Apple TV, meant one was inevitable.\u00a0 It was an enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, tale and a good ending for these characters.\u00a0 I look forward to her next original work and seeing where that takes us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years after her husband disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have acclimated to their new normal.\u00a0 When Bailey\u2019s grandfather Nicholas is reported to have died, though, they quickly find themselves back in danger and on the run once again.\u00a0 Thanks to mysterious messages Hannah has received from her missing husband, they head to [&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":[9953,9981,12598,9982],"class_list":["post-24257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-apple-tv","tag-laura-dave","tag-the-first-time-i-saw-him","tag-the-last-thing-he-told-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257","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=24257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24261,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions\/24261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}