{"id":1372,"date":"2024-12-18T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2024-12-18T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:05:00","slug":"a-very-bad-thing-by-j-t-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Very Bad Thing<\/strong> on September 1, 2024
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Mystery & Detective \/ Women Sleuths<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Psychological<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 495
Format:<\/strong> Audiobook<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so easy to take your life for granted. So simple to ignore the rumblings of reality, to become complacent, to think things will never change. Of course, they do, and almost always when you least expect it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder. With a number of hit titles and a highly anticipated movie tie-in, celebrated novelist Columbia Jones is at the top of her game. Fans around the world adore her. But on the final night of her latest book tour, one face in the crowd makes the author collapse. And by the next morning, she\u2019s lying dead in a pool of blood. Columbia\u2019s death shocks the world and leaves Darian, her daughter and publicist, reeling. The police have nothing to go on\u2014at first. But then details emerge, pointing to the author\u2019s illicit past. Turns out many people had motive to kill Columbia. And with a hungry reporter and frustrated cop on the trail, her secrets won\u2019t stay buried long. But how many lives will they shatter as the truth comes out?<\/p>\n

When the most interesting and readable character ends up getting killed off in the first 10% of the book\u2026chances are good I\u2019m going to be looking at my watch, tapping my foot, and rolling my eyes a <\/strong>lot. It\u2019s not to say that there aren\u2019t any other interesting characters in this book\u2026or rather, the potential for interesting characters, but between just keeping track of them all, their place in the plot, and the constant discussions about what was going on (or not going on) with Columbia\u2019s will, I just felt a strong sense of disconnect.\u00a0This was sold as a thriller that with an intent on providing the promised twists, and it does\u2026but the machinations involved to get there just weren\u2019t that interesting, and in my case, predictable. <\/p>\n

I rated this novel 3.5 stars. Entirely too long, started off good, and the middle was so repetitive and annoying. I think this book could\u2019ve easily been 100 pages shorter. It ended up droning on a bit. It wasn\u2019t a bad read for me, but it was easily forgotten from my mind the second I completed it. <\/p>\n

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A Very Bad Thing on September 1, 2024 Genres: Fiction \/ Mystery & Detective \/ Women Sleuths, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Psychological, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense Pages: 495 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads \u201cIt\u2019s so easy to take your life for granted. So simple to ignore the rumblings of reality, to become complacent, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}