{"id":1153,"date":"2025-06-09T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2025-06-09T08:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:57:46","slug":"wendy-corsi-staub-the-fourth-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Corsi Staub ~ The Fourth Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1153&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1153&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1154\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thefourthgirl-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thefourthgirl-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thefourthgirl.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon First Read: Started on 5\/15\/25.\u00a0 Finished on 6\/9\/25. <strong>25 Days<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters were short.\u00a0 Characters were written well.\u00a0 Story drug on a bit for me.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t like going back and forth between past and present.\u00a0 The chapter cliff hangers were few and far between but when done they were done well.<\/p>\n<p>3 friends try and help the &#8220;fourth&#8221; friend escape her parents.\u00a0 Mary Beth, the sister of the fourth girl was already banished by the parents.\u00a0 The four girls promise to help Caroline and to meet at the 1 year anniversary of her escaping.<br \/>\nThen on the 25th anniversary Gordy gets murdered.\u00a0 Is it Caroline?\u00a0 Is it Talia?<\/p>\n<p>Was a fairly decent read but it did drag a little.\u00a0 I&#8217;m giving this book a <strong>7\/10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon First Read: Started on 5\/15\/25.\u00a0 Finished on 6\/9\/25. 25 Days. Chapters were short.\u00a0 Characters were written well.\u00a0 Story drug on a bit for me.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t like going back and forth between past and present.\u00a0 The chapter cliff hangers were few and far between but when done they were done well. 3 friends try &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=1153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wendy Corsi Staub ~ The Fourth Girl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattsbookreview","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}