{"id":278,"date":"2007-09-24T13:29:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T18:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/24\/unholy-birth-by-andrew-neiderman\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T18:29:53","slug":"unholy-birth-by-andrew-neiderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Unholy Birth, by Andrew Neiderman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/unholy_birth.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/unholy_birth.thumbnail.JPG\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>After much arguing,  Kate talks her life partner Willy into having a baby by way of artificial insemination. To Kate&#8217;s surprise, she is contacted personally by a mysterious company who offers their services. After the first try, even though Kate is told she is not pregnant, she starts experiencing the symptoms of a mother in her third trimester. Unfortunately no one believes her including Willy. For me, this wasn&#8217;t one of Mr. Neiderman&#8217;s best efforts. The only character I found likeable was Kate who is stuck battling her feelings of knowing something is wrong, and doubting her own sanity. I couldn&#8217;t stand Willy. I found her arrogant, sarcastic, selfish, and completely unsupportive of the woman she supposedly loves. Also, I found it hard to believe that Kate would not have gone to her previous Dr. with her concerns and suspicions before she did. That said, I found the plot itself fairly interesting with quite a few twists and turns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much arguing, Kate talks her life partner Willy into having a baby by way of artificial insemination. To Kate&#8217;s surprise, she is contacted personally by a mysterious company who offers their services. After the first try, even though Kate is told she is not pregnant, she starts experiencing the symptoms of a mother in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"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":[24,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-4u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}