{"id":385,"date":"2016-04-22T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andijah.wordpress.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2016-04-22T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T07:00:58","slug":"bored-need-action-go-read-frank-westworths-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/2016\/04\/22\/bored-need-action-go-read-frank-westworths-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored? Need action? Go read Frank Westworth&#8217;s stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people would argue that I read anything that is in front of my nose, but that&#8217;s not quite true. I do choose what I read, but what is true is that when I&#8217;m asked to read and review something, I seldom say no.<br \/>\nSo of course I welcomed the invitation by Rowena of https:\/\/murdermayhemandmore.wordpress.com\/ to read &#8222;First Contract: A JJ Stoner short story&#8220; by Frank Westworth.<br \/>\nThose of you who&#8217;ve known me for a while might think, hey, what, there she is, suddenly reading e-books? Well, not really. I still don&#8217;t own an e-book-reader, but thanks to modern technology, I received a copy of the story that I could read on my PC \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nI usually don&#8217;t recommend this veeeeery large online book seller, but you don&#8217;t get this story anywhere else, so, [insert deep sigh here] if you want to read &#8222;First Contract&#8220;, go online and do whatever one does to get the data onto the device.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the actual story. It&#8217;s certainly not for the chicken-hearted, and not for people who expect their heroes to be heroes but never use swear words. If you like Jack Reacher, you will probably like JJ Stoner. But that&#8217;s all you can say for similarity. The two guys are certainly not brothers, and Frank hasn&#8217;t written a story that&#8217;s simply just another version of a successful concept. JJ Stoner is a man with some rough edges and a mind of his own, and despite the fact that he&#8217;s killing people by the dozen, you still get the feeling that you kinda like him. But you would never want to stand in his way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;First contract&#8220; is brisk, rather intense and remarkably well-written. Despite the violence, there&#8217;s a humourous streak, and if you like out-of-the-ordinary adventures with interesting twists in the storyline, go for Frank&#8217;s stories. And watch this space for future reviews, because there&#8217;s more to come. Promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people would argue that I read anything that is in front of my nose, but that&#8217;s not quite true. I do choose what I read, but what is true is that when I&#8217;m asked to read and review something, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/2016\/04\/22\/bored-need-action-go-read-frank-westworths-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[101,146,236,279,323],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bucher","tag-frank-westworth","tag-jj-stoner","tag-reading","tag-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andijah.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}