{"id":376,"date":"2005-12-04T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T16:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=376"},"modified":"2024-07-20T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T00:36:10","slug":"roberts_bluesmoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/12\/roberts_bluesmoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts, Nora: <cite>Blue Smoke<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the library, a new <strong>Nora Roberts hardcover, <cite>Blue Smoke<\/cite><\/strong>. This is a single-couple novel, perhaps indicating that two- or three-couple novels are not going to be a permanent trend in her mainstream novels. It takes its sweet time getting the couple together, mind, letting one-sided &#8220;love at first sight&#8221; at around page 50, and a number of near-misses, suffice until they meet almost half-way in. The romance feels almost secondary to me, which is just fine, because I read the book as Catrina Hale&#8217;s story, how and why she became an arson investigator. Despite its crashingly obvious villain, that story is more interesting than fated love at first etc.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, a good way to pass a lunch and a sleepy evening; I don&#8217;t ask it to be more than that and it doesn&#8217;t try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the library, a new Nora Roberts hardcover, Blue Smoke. This is a single-couple novel, perhaps indicating that two- or three-couple novels are not going to be a permanent trend in her mainstream novels. It takes its sweet time getting the couple together, mind, letting one-sided &#8220;love at first sight&#8221; at around page 50, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/12\/roberts_bluesmoke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roberts, Nora: <cite>Blue Smoke<\/cite>&#8220;<\/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":[48,12],"tags":[362],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-romance","tag-roberts-nora"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}