{"id":1681,"date":"2018-07-26T03:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T02:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2018-07-26T03:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T02:06:41","slug":"book-review-camino-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/book-review-camino-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Camino Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Camino<\/p>\n

How does one review a novel?<\/p>\n

Well, I don’t, because for me novels are less objective than other kinds of books.<\/p>\n

One of my favourite authors, for when I want to lose myself in a world,\u00a0slightly<\/em> raise my pulse, and generally enjoy reading for pure pleasure, is John Grisham. Starting with\u00a0The Partner<\/em> as a young teenager, I’ve avidly read (I think) pretty much he’s written.<\/p>\n

I’ve not read much of his recent stuff – so when my brother lent me\u00a0Camino Island<\/em>, I grabbed it and devoured it in spare moments over a busy weekend. The plot draws together a number of threads that interest me – books, book publishing, rare book dealers, academics, and writing – and wraps it up in a bundle of crime, espionage and engaging characters.<\/p>\n

If you like John Grisham in slightly-less-obsessed-with-the-American-legal-system mode, you’ll love this. If you like John Grisham, you’ll probably like this. If you\u00a0don’t<\/strong> like John Grisham, but do like books, this might be a good one to start with. I found it cleverly self-deprecating, and clearly written for someone who really likes F. Scott Fitzgerald (no spoilers!) – I hope this might be a gateway into Grisham’s massive catalogue for my more literary friends.<\/p>\n

Recommended, and a perfect summer read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does one review a novel? Well, I don’t, because for me novels are less objective than other kinds of books. One of my favourite authors, for when I want to lose myself in a world,\u00a0slightly raise my pulse, and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,606],"tags":[610,761,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}