{"id":540,"date":"2007-09-21T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=540"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:26:12","slug":"crusie_bet-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/crusie_bet-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusie, Jennifer: <cite>Bet Me<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked <strong>Jennifer Crusie&#8217;s <cite>Bet Me<\/cite><\/strong> better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/12\/cruise_jennifer_1.php\"><cite>Faking It<\/cite><\/a>, her last solo novel. <cite>Bet Me<\/cite> has no murders and so no tone mismatch. And in what is possibly a first for me, I was able to keep track of all eight characters introduced in the opening chapter.<\/p>\n<p>This book <em>is<\/em> a fairy tale&mdash;it starts with &#8220;Once upon a time&#8221; and ends with &#8220;happily ever after&#8221;&mdash;and is <em>about<\/em> fairy tales, ripping them apart and then putting them back together properly. Some small parts of the plot only make sense when viewed as part of a fairy tale; I&#8217;m not sure if I buy them even with those genre conventions in mind. Also, the middle seems a bit slow. However, it was very good post-vacation piecemeal reading and would probably be a good place to start reading Crusie&#8217;s novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked Jennifer Crusie&#8217;s Bet Me better than Faking It, her last solo novel. Bet Me has no murders and so no tone mismatch. And in what is possibly a first for me, I was able to keep track of all eight characters introduced in the opening chapter. This book is a fairy tale&mdash;it starts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/crusie_bet-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crusie, Jennifer: <cite>Bet Me<\/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":[182],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-romance","tag-crusie-jennifer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}