{"id":575,"date":"2008-10-19T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2023-07-11T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:25:09","slug":"perez-revertes-books-are-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/perez-revertes-books-are-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez-Reverte\u2019s books are disappointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perez-Reverte came highly recommended as an author of well written intelligent thrillers. I also loved the movie <em>The Ninth Gate<\/em> based on <em>The Club Dumas<\/em>. I optimistically purchased all his books and had great expectations.<\/p>\n<p>I read <em>The Club Dumas<\/em>, <em>The Seville Communion<\/em> and <em>The Queen of the South<\/em>. Perez-Reverte is certainly erudite and I loved the Dumas and Dante references in <em>The Club Dumas<\/em>. I also appreciate flawed main characters.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately all the Perez-Reverte books have the same flaws: the story moves too slowly and the scale of the characters\u2019 struggles is just too small. For instance, in <em>The Seville Communion<\/em>, I just did not care about the fate of an inconsequential church. I prefer epic tales when it comes to thrillers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perez-Reverte came highly recommended as an author of well written intelligent thrillers. I also loved the movie The Ninth Gate based on The Club Dumas. I optimistically purchased all his &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Perez-Reverte\u2019s books are disappointing. Categories - Books. Date-Posted - 2008-10-19T17:04:51 . Perez-Reverte came highly recommended as an author of well written intelligent thrillers. I also loved the movie The Ninth Gate based on The Club Dumas. I optimistically purchased all his books and had great expectations.\n I read The Club Dumas, The Seville Communion and The Queen of the South. Perez-Reverte is certainly erudite and I loved the Dumas and Dante references in The Club Dumas. I also appreciate flawed main characters.\n Unfortunately all the Perez-Reverte books have the same flaws: the story moves too slowly and the scale of the characters\u2019 struggles is just too small. For instance, in The Seville Communion, I just did not care about the fate of an inconsequential church. I prefer epic tales when it comes to thrillers.\n ","Category":["Books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17227,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/17227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}