{"id":610,"date":"2023-08-24T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=610"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:29:16","slug":"mark-edwards-the-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Mark Edwards ~ The Retreat"},"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%2F610&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%2F610&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>I believe I bought this book from Amazon.\u00a0 I like Mark&#8217;s writing.\u00a0 I started the book on 8\/15\/23.\u00a0 I&#8217;m four chapters in and so far it hasn&#8217;t had any major twists.\u00a0 Characters seem well defined though.\u00a0 I finished the book on 8\/24\/23.\u00a0 <strong>10 days<\/strong>.\u00a0 Wow, the twists&#8230;\u00a0 Lily and her parents move into a new home in Wales.\u00a0 Folklore states that there is a witch that lives in the woods and steals children every 35 years.\u00a0 The writers &#8220;Retreat&#8221; is where Lily&#8217;s family lived.\u00a0 Mum still lives there but lost her husband and Lily the same day.\u00a0 Husband drowned and Lily &#8220;disappeared&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Lucas, the writer, goes to the Retreat to finish his second book.\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually his old hometown but they moved away&#8230;Humpf 34 years ago&#8230;..\u00a0 Well the twists start to happen at about chapter 40.\u00a0 Characters are well written, chapters are kind of long and names are hard to pronounce.\u00a0 Overall I&#8217;m giving this book an 8\/10.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-611\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/theretreat.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I bought this book from Amazon.\u00a0 I like Mark&#8217;s writing.\u00a0 I started the book on 8\/15\/23.\u00a0 I&#8217;m four chapters in and so far it hasn&#8217;t had any major twists.\u00a0 Characters seem well defined though.\u00a0 I finished the book on 8\/24\/23.\u00a0 10 days.\u00a0 Wow, the twists&#8230;\u00a0 Lily and her parents move into a new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Edwards ~ The Retreat&#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-610","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\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}