{"id":988,"date":"2009-08-24T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2009-08-24T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:38:00","slug":"the-black-echo-michael-connelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"The Black Echo (Michael Connelly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SpLeXzQyGdI\/AAAAAAAAEIg\/p-qAptu1TxM\/s1600-h\/theblackecho.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SpLeXzQyGdI\/AAAAAAAAEIg\/p-qAptu1TxM\/s400\/theblackecho.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Some lovely people gave me a Waterstone&#8217;s token, so I thought I&#8217;d spend it on a couple more Michael Connelly books, as I&#8217;d enjoyed The Poet so much.<\/p>\n<p>Taken on its own this is a fine crime novel, with an excellently irascible and intriguing lead character in Harry Bosch. However, the great drawback was that structurally it is <span>extremely <\/span>similar to The Poet. I&#8217;ve bought another one &#8211; Black Ice, next in the sequence &#8211; and if Connelly uses the same structure for that then he will drop down several levels in my estimation.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some lovely people gave me a Waterstone&#8217;s token, so I thought I&#8217;d spend it on a couple more Michael Connelly books, as I&#8217;d enjoyed The Poet so much. Taken on its own this is a fine crime novel, with an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-fW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}