{"id":139,"date":"2006-02-12T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=139"},"modified":"2006-02-12T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T19:02:00","slug":"homing-by-jeffrey-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/02\/homing-by-jeffrey-campbell.html","title":{"rendered":"The Homing by Jeffrey Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out there are a lot of books called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345287932\/tradgirl\" target='new'>The Homing<\/a>.  This one, by Jeffrey Campbell, is a mystery\/thriller about a guy trying to figure out why his daughter has changed from a fun-loving, sarcastic psychology student into a Stepford wife.  There&#8217;s a lot of promise in the book but it doesn&#8217;t really pan out.  <\/p>\n<p>Campbell crams a load of backstory into the first chapter, then marches you through a plot that gets increasingly more complicated and farther from the original, before quickly wrapping everything up in a few pages.  I felt like there were a million plot holes but when I looked back on it, I guess there weren&#8217;t.  It was just that the story had changed so drastically and was finished so quickly that my brain didn&#8217;t have time to assimilate the &#8220;truth&#8221; before it was all done.  So it was surprising but unsatisfying.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fast-paced, plot-based book.  The characters were lightly drawn and the mystery starts from page one.  Don&#8217;t expect much else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out there are a lot of books called The Homing. This one, by Jeffrey Campbell, is a mystery\/thriller about a guy trying to figure out why his daughter has changed from a fun-loving, sarcastic psychology student into a Stepford wife. There&#8217;s a lot of promise in the book but it doesn&#8217;t really pan out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}