{"id":3197,"date":"2018-08-20T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2018-08-20T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:07:13","slug":"the-perfect-couple-by-elin-hilderbrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-perfect-couple-by-elin-hilderbrand\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Perfect Couple<\/em> by Elin Hilderbrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34840184-the-perfect-couple\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1520361784m\/34840184.jpg\" alt=\"The Perfect Couple\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34840184-the-perfect-couple\">The Perfect Couple<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/88301.Elin_Hilderbrand\">Elin Hilderbrand<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2501109671\">1 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I strained mightily to get through this, but gave up about a third of the way through. The author spends almost no time on the murder plot and way too much on bland descriptions of mostly uninteresting characters. The rest is spent prattling on about fashion and wines, apparently things the author values. This is her 21st novel, just like a certain female character in the story, and just like her, this novel seems &#8220;phoned in.&#8221; Maybe it&#8217;s a disguised autobiography.<\/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 Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand My rating: 1 of 5 stars I strained mightily to get through this, but gave up about a third of the way through. The author spends almost no time on the murder plot and way too much on bland descriptions of mostly uninteresting characters. 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