{"id":2375,"date":"2017-05-07T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2017-05-07T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:21:08","slug":"girl-j-p-delaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/girl-j-p-delaney\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Girl Before<\/em> by J. P. Delaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28016509-the-girl-before\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Girl Before\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1485972587m\/28016509.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28016509-the-girl-before\">The Girl Before<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/14719991.J_P_Delaney\">J.P. Delaney<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1993801937\">1 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One star seems a bit harsh since it wasn&#8217;t badly written, but in Goodreads, that merely means I didn&#8217;t like it, not that it was terrible. I didn&#8217;t get all the way through this one. It just got too creepy and graphic with the sex to be enjoyable. I got the feeling the whole plot was devised just to provide some soft-core porn gussied up as drama so that readers could pretend to themselves they were reading it for its literary value, like men who used to tell their wives they read Playboy for the articles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl Before by J.P. 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