{"id":5407,"date":"2014-09-04T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2014-09-04T21:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:41:20","slug":"disordered-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5407","title":{"rendered":"Disordered Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Disordered-Minds-Minette-Walters\/dp\/1447208021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/disordered_minds.jpg\" alt=\"disordered_minds\" width=\"140\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read this for reading group.  <\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that this just isn&#8217;t my type of book; there&#8217;s very little description and it reads a bit like a script.  Apart from the shocking gang rape at the beginning there is nothing hugely evocative in this book.  Even the explanations in the closing pages of the book didn&#8217;t hold my attention.  I was lost in the discussions between Jonathan, Georgina and their various interviewees and it was frustrating trying to work out what was truth and what was lies.  By the time I got to the end my head was spinning with the various possibilities and I was hoping for a satisfying ending.  It was a sad and unexpected explanation but not satisfying unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I did like was that the main character was quite unusual &#8211; a highly educated, mixed race man who has issues.  But that isn&#8217;t enough.  I think this book would make a good TV adaptation but I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it as a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this for reading group. I have to admit that this just isn&#8217;t my type of book; there&#8217;s very little description and it reads a bit like a script. Apart from the shocking gang rape at the beginning there is nothing hugely evocative in this book. Even the explanations in the closing pages of [&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-5407","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\/5407","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=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}