{"id":267,"date":"2004-05-14T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=267"},"modified":"2004-05-14T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T22:48:50","slug":"johansen_iris_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/05\/johansen_iris_f\/","title":{"rendered":"Johansen, Iris: Face of Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link_face\" name=\"link_face\"><\/a>I got bad guys fueling an incredibly out-there conspiracy thriller in <strong>Iris Johansen&#8217;s <cite>Face of Deception<\/cite><\/strong>, an random paperback exchange selection by another ex-romance-genre author. This is the first in an apparent series about a forensic sculptor; in this one, she&#8217;s bullied into reconstructing a skull&#8217;s face by a rich alpha male, with unexpected results. The forensic stuff is interesting, and the plot certainly moves briskly, carrying me past the &#8220;oh come on&#8221; moments, of which there are many. This is actually fairly far from the genre romance conventions, as there&#8217;s an implicit love triangle that isn&#8217;t resolved in this volume. I was at the library just after I finished this and actually checked out the next; I got it home, picked it up, and only then came to my senses: I don&#8217;t actually <em>like<\/em> either of the two guys in the triangle. I skipped to the end, just to see if it turned out the way I guessed (it did), and then put it aside to be returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got bad guys fueling an incredibly out-there conspiracy thriller in Iris Johansen&#8217;s Face of Deception, an random paperback exchange selection by another ex-romance-genre author. This is the first in an apparent series about a forensic sculptor; in this one, she&#8217;s bullied into reconstructing a skull&#8217;s face by a rich alpha male, with unexpected results. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/05\/johansen_iris_f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Johansen, Iris: Face of Deception&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,24],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-thriller","tag-johansen-iris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}