{"id":2627,"date":"2013-07-23T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2013-07-19T17:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T22:00:58","slug":"havent-i-read-this-story-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"Haven’t I Read This Story Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This was supposed to be a review of The Mystery Woman<\/em> by Amanda Quick, an author who I have enjoyed under all three of her names. (She’s also Jayne Ann Krentz and Jayne Castle.) Then I realized that I’ve read this story before. Oh, not this book — but definitely this story.<\/p>\n

It’s a good story, which makes it hard to review the book. Amanda Quick writes Victorian mysteries\/romances, lately with a touch of the paranormal. Her mysteries are well conceived, her paranormal element is subtle and well-thought out… her romances are thin of late but then again, she’s more of a mystery writer these days.<\/p>\n

But I’ve read it before. When I tried to figure out how to review this book, how to summarize it, I couldn’t separate the details of this mystery from those of a dozen others by the same author.<\/p>\n

There comes a time in some authors’ careers when I think they write too many books back to back. It’s a strategy that makes money, so I can’t really blame them. People like Amanda Quick. They see she’s got a new book and they buy it. But I think I can no longer be one of those people. It’s time for me to read a new story and so, with fond memories, I will say good-bye to this author while I seek out new experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was supposed to be a review of The Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick, an author who I have enjoyed under all three of her names. (She’s also Jayne Ann Krentz and Jayne Castle.) Then I realized that I’ve read this story before. Oh, not this book — but definitely this story. It’s a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,62,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-mysterysuspense","category-romance-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}