{"id":5396,"date":"2014-07-30T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2014-08-11T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:11:35","slug":"checkmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Checkmate-Book-Noughts-And-Crosses\/dp\/0552551945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/checkmate-.jpg\" alt=\"Checkmate\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this, the third book of the trilogy, I was a little disappointed.  I felt that the writing was very simplistic, as it has been throughout the trilogy, but this book didn&#8217;t counteract it with the suspense of the other books.  I didn&#8217;t like Callie Rose and Sephy&#8217;s happy ending; thought that was a bit sugary.  Jude was beyond a caricature.  All that said, I did think the earlier tension between Sephy and her teenage daughter was quite realistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this, the third book of the trilogy, I was a little disappointed. I felt that the writing was very simplistic, as it has been throughout the trilogy, but this book didn&#8217;t counteract it with the suspense of the other books. I didn&#8217;t like Callie Rose and Sephy&#8217;s happy ending; thought that was a bit [&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-5396","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\/5396","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=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}