{"id":19974,"date":"2023-02-07T06:49:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19974"},"modified":"2023-02-06T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:21:01","slug":"book-5-of-52-the-it-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/book-5-of-52-the-it-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 5 (of 52) \u2013 The IT Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19975\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/theitgirl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19975\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19975\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/theitgirl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/theitgirl.jpg 350w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/theitgirl-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The IT Girl &#8211; Ruth Ware<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the man convicted of killing her college roommate dies in prison, a pregnant woman starts to question whether things happened as she thought they did years ago.\u00a0 She starts reaching out to old friends and returns to her old stomping grounds in an effort to prove, one way or the other, what really happened that night.\u00a0 The only question is can she do so while keeping herself and her family safe?<\/p>\n<p>I was a little down on Ruth Ware&#8217;s latest, <em>The It Girl<\/em>, in the early going.\u00a0 The big bad seemed patently obvious, and I had a hard time getting in to the story.\u00a0 Eventually, though, I got through it and became engrossed as the story progressed.\u00a0 The obvious big bad ended up being a red herring, but there was some shaky, out of character behavior that was never explained to point arrows in his direction.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re going to make someone act like the bad guy to throw the reader a curveball, you should circle back and explain why he acted that way when he turns out not to be the bad guy.\u00a0 Aside from that, this turned out to be another enjoyable work from Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the man convicted of killing her college roommate dies in prison, a pregnant woman starts to question whether things happened as she thought they did years ago.\u00a0 She starts reaching out to old friends and returns to her old stomping grounds in an effort to prove, one way or the other, what really happened [&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":[9877,10381],"class_list":["post-19974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-ruth-ware","tag-the-it-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19974","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=19974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19984,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19974\/revisions\/19984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}