{"id":135974,"date":"2014-09-25T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=135974"},"modified":"2014-09-25T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:00:07","slug":"patron-review-the-heiresses-sara-shepard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=135974","title":{"rendered":"Patron Review: The Heiresses &#8211; Sara Shepard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/heiresses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-135975\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/heiresses.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"heiresses\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Reviewed by Kim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I picked this up thinking it was going to be a grown-up version of Pretty Little Liars with unlikable characters, name brand dropping in every sentence, and a ludicrous plot that drags on forever. I know. You&#8217;re probably wondering why I tried it to begin with. Well I must admit to a a secret obsession with the PLLs tv series which is actually much better than the books. That and I was curious and figured what the heck? It&#8217;s just over 300 pages so I really wouldn&#8217;t be wasting much of my time. I actually found it to be pretty good. The story centers around the Saybrook family and in particular the heiress granddaughters. The Saybrooks have built a diamond empire from some stones found by the patriarch of the family right after WWII ended. Unfortunately with great wealth comes &#8220;the curse&#8221;. Untimely deaths, scandals, etc. This part actually reminded me a little of the Kennedy&#8217;s. Now someone&#8217;s notched things up even farther and it is soon apparent that this mystery figure is out to kill the heiresses one by one. I would call this another good beach read. It took me one day to read it, I liked most of the characters, and the plot kept you guessing. I&#8217;m hoping there is a sequel because there were some questions left unanswered, and it had quite the cliffhanger ending. I would recommend this to fans of light, mystery\/suspense books.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3496203?locg=1\">Check the NOBLE catalog for the availability of this title<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping there is a sequel because there were some questions left unanswered, and it had quite the cliffhanger ending. I would recommend this to fans of light, mystery\/suspense books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":135975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patron-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-zn8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}