{"id":18422,"date":"2021-12-23T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18422"},"modified":"2021-12-23T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:15:16","slug":"book-53-of-52-a-slow-fire-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/book-53-of-52-a-slow-fire-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 53 (of 52) &#8211; A Slow Fire Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18423\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/slowfireburning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18423\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18423\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/slowfireburning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/slowfireburning.jpg 331w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/slowfireburning-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Slow Fire Burning &#8211; Paula Hawkins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paula Hawkins returns with her third novel, <em>A Slow Fire Burning<\/em>.\u00a0 In this go around, the death of a young man on a houseboat is the latest connection between a group of locals, the nosy neighbor who found him, his aunt and uncle, his mom&#8217;s neighbor, and the young woman he had just slept with.\u00a0 As the police focus in on one suspect, the others intersect until the truth is finally revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins hit the scene in 2015 with her smash debut, <em>The Girl on the Train<\/em>, which was one of many releases to be dubbed &#8220;the next <em>Gone Girl<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 While I have enjoyed all three of Hawkins&#8217; efforts, there does seem to be some diminishing returns, as I liked each one less than its predecessor.\u00a0 I may check out what comes next, since I&#8217;ll probably forget my growing apprehension four years from now when she puts out a new book, but, for now, I&#8217;m ready to give her work a rest for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Hawkins returns with her third novel, A Slow Fire Burning.\u00a0 In this go around, the death of a young man on a houseboat is the latest connection between a group of locals, the nosy neighbor who found him, his aunt and uncle, his mom&#8217;s neighbor, and the young woman he had just slept with.\u00a0 [&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":[9872,2416,5547,5546],"class_list":["post-18422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-slow-fire-burning","tag-gone-girl","tag-paula-hawkins","tag-the-girl-on-the-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18424,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions\/18424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}