{"id":4820,"date":"2013-10-02T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2013-10-02T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:25:03","slug":"the-cuckoos-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4820","title":{"rendered":"The Cuckoo&#8217;s Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Cuckoos-Calling-Cormoran-Strike\/dp\/1408703998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CuckoosCalling-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Cuckoo&#039;s Calling\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CuckoosCalling-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CuckoosCalling.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was dead keen to read this since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3546\">I loved The Casual Vacancy<\/a>, J. K. Rowling&#8217;s first book for adults.  It was reserved by more than 60 people at the library so I had to wait a few weeks before I got my hands on it.<\/p>\n<p>This is a contemporary tale set in London (both always a plus for me), well written and the conclusion came as a complete shock to me.  However, it all felt a bit flat for the first two thirds of the book.  The last third saw the pace pick up significantly and I couldn&#8217;t put it down.  I didn&#8217;t like the name of the hero (Cormoran Strike?  Give me a break!) and some of the characters were too stereotyped.  Still, I very much enjoyed the final third so I&#8217;d recommended it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was dead keen to read this since I loved The Casual Vacancy, J. K. Rowling&#8217;s first book for adults. It was reserved by more than 60 people at the library so I had to wait a few weeks before I got my hands on it. This is a contemporary tale set in London (both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}