{"id":5128,"date":"2022-08-22T23:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2022-08-23T16:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:32:39","slug":"magpie-by-elizabeth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/magpie-by-elizabeth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>Magpie<\/b> by Elizabeth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59366252-magpie\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1649605087l\/59366252._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"Magpie\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59366252-magpie\">Magpie<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1612493.Elizabeth_Day\">Elizabeth Day<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/4937793254\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young couple living the life in London takes in another woman out of necessity. Will the man&#8217;s fidelity be tested? After reading several chapters into the book, I was fully prepared to dismiss it as typical chick lit about a man taking advantage of his female partner, with the woman eventually screwing up her courage and dumping the cad, teaching him a lesson in the process. It had all the female author markings, like constant descriptions of what the women were wearing. I had to look up numerous fashion terms. I now know what a Breton top is (a white sweater with thin, black, horizontal stripes) and boyfriend-style jeans (baggy, oversized, worn looking ones). A male author would have just written, &#8220;she wore a striped sweater and baggy jeans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But along comes Part 2 and the first big plot twist gave me a jolt. Wow! This is not what it seemed. I realized it could turn dark quickly, and it did. I&#8217;m always a bit skeptical of the unreliable narrator trick since it&#8217;s so overdone, but this had an original edge to it. 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