{"id":3677,"date":"2013-03-31T09:53:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2013-03-31T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T14:53:40","slug":"review-of-tell-me-when-it-hurts-by-christine-m-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/review-of-tell-me-when-it-hurts-by-christine-m-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Tell Me When It Hurts, by Christine M. Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I grabbed\u00a0Christine Whitehead<\/span><\/a>‘s Tell Me When It Hurts<\/span><\/a> from the Amazon KDP list. At the time of posting it was still free.<\/span><\/p>\n

Description from Goodreads:<\/strong><\/span>
\n Archer Loh, Ivy League grad and Olympic rider, has been carefully groomed to be a government assassin but, at the moment of decision, she instead chooses law school, her college sweetheart, and a quiet life in Connecticut, leaving her violent apprenticeship behind as her own little secret.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When her only child is murdered and the killer goes free on a technicality, Archer ditches family, career, friends and horses to find justice. Brushing up on her lethal skills, and aided by a shadowy and well-heeled vigilante group, she tries to find meaning in her pain and a reason to keep taking another breath by implementing private retribution.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At her lowest ebb, Connor McCall, Harvard-educated financial baron turned Wyoming sheep rancher, stumbles into her life, bringing with him his own demons. And everything changes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Review:<\/strong><\/span>
\n I’m a fairly dedicated Fantasy and Sci-Fi reader, but I was in the mood for something a little more down to earth so I picked up\u00a0Tell Me When It Hurts<\/em>. Granted, I was expecting a little more\u00a0The Long Kiss Goodnight<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0La Femme Nikita<\/em>\u00a0than\u00a0The Horse Whisperer<\/em>, but it was still a sweet story. I teared up more than once, rooted for the characters and was pleased with the ending.<\/span><\/p>\n

Archer was mired in guilt and in constant emotional turmoil. She was a little horrible, but who could blame her? Not me. Conner was…oh, Conner was just marvellous. He was one of the best characters I’ve come across lately. I loved him. He sooo deserved to be happy. There were also a whole host of small-time side characters who all had an important role to play and you couldn’t help but like them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The above sentence, with the movie\/book references in it, would fit nicely into the\u00a0Tell Me When It Hurts<\/em>. There are a lot of them in the book. It’s a game the characters play, and by extension so does the reader. It was kind of fun and I suspect that there were even more than I was able to catch.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book did drag a bit in the middle. It wasn’t that nothing happened, in fact a few small but important things occurred. It was just that for a little while there it became a string of mundane occurrences, Christmas shopping, getting the mail, walking the dogs, etc. I know that this was sort of the point. The characters were falling into a life together, but I’m used to a bit more action and was relieved when things picked back up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book would definitely appeal to fans of Nicholas Evans more than those of Robert Ludlam, but I recommend it for anyone who likes a story about the resilience of the human spirit and overcoming personal tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grabbed\u00a0Christine Whitehead‘s Tell Me When It Hurts from the Amazon KDP list. At the time of posting it was still free. Description from Goodreads: Archer Loh, Ivy League grad and Olympic rider, has been carefully groomed to be a government assassin but, at the moment of decision, she instead chooses law school, her college […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[231,35,67],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksbook-review","category-challenges","tag-book-review","tag-challenge-2013","tag-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}