{"id":1853,"date":"2021-02-12T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:44:35","slug":"now-this-is-a-birthday-gift-great-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/now-this-is-a-birthday-gift-great-review\/","title":{"rendered":"NOW THIS IS A BIRTHDAY GIFT! GREAT REVIEW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about receiving the perfect writer’s gift for my birthday! Great review. Check it out!<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vigilantreader.com\/recent-reviews.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Title \u2013 Hanging Softly in the Night<\/span>
\nAuthor \u2013 Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra<\/span>
\nGenre \u2013 Detective\/Mystery <\/span>
\nWord Count – 108,500<\/span>
\nRating \u2013 5 stars out of 5 <\/span>
\nNo. 07 – 2021<\/span>
\nPosted 2\/12\/2021<\/span><\/p>\n

My Impressions: Professional writing, interesting, believable characters who interact well, intricate and complex plot.<\/span>
\nMain Characters:<\/span>
\nLt. Detective Nick Larson \u2013 Struggling with internal demons after ex-wife committed suicide.<\/span>
\nDetective Vic Sacco \u2013 Nick\u2019s close friend and partner.<\/span>
\nRamos \u2013 Member of the investigative team<\/span>
\nLaura Howard \u2013 Nick\u2019s current girlfriend with her own deadly personal baggage.<\/span>
\nSandra Ward \u2013 Laura\u2019s sister who wants to destroy her.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are three story lines here. Nick is fighting personal demons after his ex-wife committed suicide while on the phone with him begging him to take her back. A second story line is his girlfriend\u2019s psychopath sister who wants to destroy her and is in a psych ward. But even locked up the nutcase manages to corrupt Laura\u2019s life. The main plot is a string of hangings deaths originally judged to be suicides. Nick isn\u2019t buying the suicides; he and his investigative team chase leads to no avail and the deaths keep piling up. The interaction among his team members adds greatly to the story, Many people they interview are nutcases in their own right. Then the case is solved by a witness who just drops in their laps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laura\u2019s demented sister is not resolved. Is she left hanging for a sequel? I hope so.<\/span><\/p>\n

The editing and sentence structure are well done and just short of perfect. <\/span>
\nCharacter Development is good for all important characters. <\/span>
\nResearch is evident in the story\u2019s complex details. <\/span>
\nThe plot is complex, intense and fast paced.<\/span><\/p>\n

I enjoyed Hanging Softly in the Night and highly recommend it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk about receiving the perfect writer’s gift for my birthday! Great review. Check it out! https:\/\/www.vigilantreader.com\/recent-reviews.html Title \u2013 Hanging Softly in the Night Author \u2013 Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra Genre \u2013 Detective\/Mystery Word Count – 108,500 Rating \u2013 5 stars out of 5 No. 07 – 2021 Posted 2\/12\/2021 My Impressions: Professional writing, interesting, believable characters … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}