{"id":830,"date":"2011-05-18T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-06-02T21:12:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T02:12:03","slug":"book-review-and-giveaway-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Book Review and Giveaway: Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest review by Austin Morgan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have been in the mood for a good mystery so I decided to sign up for Goodreads.com’s First Reads<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a great service in which you can sign up to receive books either before or just after they are released.\u00a0 The first book I received was Karin Slaughter’s Fallen.\u00a0 In honor of my winning a copy of this novel, you also have a chance to win the same copy!<\/p>\n

I can not claim Fallen is a good mystery, but it was an entertaining read.\u00a0 When I requested Fallen I was not aware that this was part of a series.\u00a0 The good news is that everything that is truly important is in the novel.<\/p>\n

Faith Mitchell is a veteran police officer.\u00a0 When she comes home to a hostage situation, dead bodies and a missing mother whom was the\u00a0 Captain of the Atlanta Police Department and terminated under suspicious circumstances a bad day turns into a her worst nightmare.<\/p>\n

The story then unfolds almost entirely through exposition.\u00a0 I do not like this form of story telling but Karin Slaughter was able to keep my interest through the whole book despite it.\u00a0 Her story flowed smoothly with enough information appearing at all the right places to prevent me from wanting to put it down.\u00a0 The multifaceted characters help tame the frequent and very graphic violence that seems to guide the direction of the plot.\u00a0 Be warned if you don’t like to read about copious amounts of grey matter covering just about everything this is not the book for you.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the ride until the finally.\u00a0 Unfortunately I found the end to be completely unbelievable to the point of almost laughable and almost caused me to give this book less than 3 stars.\u00a0 The reason I am giving it 4 stars is that I really enjoyed the book until the very end and will likely read the other books in the series.<\/p>\n

Rating: 4\/5 Stars<\/p>\n

Title: Fallen<\/a>
\nAuthor: Karin Slaughter
\nISBN: 9780345528209
\nPublication Date: June 21, 2011
\nReviewed by: Austin Morgan<\/p>\n

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The Contest:
\nTo win a copy of this book leave a comment on this post.<\/p>\n

Rules:<\/p>\n

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  1. Only comments left at http:\/\/christineamsden.com will be entered in the contest<\/li>\n
  2. You will receive the exact same Advanced Review Copy I received from the publisher<\/li>\n
  3. You must live in the US to win<\/li>\n
  4. Contest ends on Sunday May 29, 2011 at 11:59 PM CT<\/li>\n
  5. The winner will be contacted via e-mail, the winner has 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guest review by Austin Morgan I have been in the mood for a good mystery so I decided to sign up for Goodreads.com’s First Reads.\u00a0 This is a great service in which you can sign up to receive books either before or just after they are released.\u00a0 The first book I received was Karin Slaughter’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-mysterysuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}