{"id":484,"date":"2009-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=484"},"modified":"2024-12-31T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:51:33","slug":"the-love-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/15\/the-love-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Louise Douglas<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>MacMillan<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, August 15th 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Much as I hate to say it, <em>The Love of My Life<\/em> occupied several hours during which I could have been doing other, more satisfying things.\u00a0 The narrator, Olivia, has known her husband, Luca and his twin brother Marcus since childhood.\u00a0 When Luca is killed in a car crash, she is left to reflect on both the events leading up to their marriage and those that follow his death; actions that cause unintentional but grave damage to all concerned and leave her irrevocably estranged from her husband\u2019s family.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A well-enough written novel about \u201clove, loss and consequences\u201d, it is not in itself bad, merely inconsequential.\u00a0 Yes, we all know that dealing with the loss of a loved one is a slow and painful process, one in which we turn to anybody with whom we can share the pain, even if the outcome is inevitable.\u00a0 We have all read, watched or experienced this in many shapes and forms.\u00a0 This is merely another example, and I finished feeling like I had read it, or something like it, many times before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Douglas<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review August 15th 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,370,102,18],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-88","tag-fiction","tag-louise-douglas","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}