{"id":11686,"date":"2019-02-23T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T22:19:23","slug":"somebody-killed-his-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11686","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Killed His Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somebody Killed His Editor<\/a><\/em> (2009\/2016) Josh Lanyon <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Christopher Holmes has spent the past 16 years writing his beloved heroine, Miss Butterwith, but sales are flat, and his editor has strong-armed him into coming to a conference in an attempt to help his career (and see if he can stay with his current publishing house).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the perfect opportunity to try something new,\u201d she urged. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to try anything new.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you should. You\u2019re a thirty-something-year-old man writing about a seventy-year-old spinster and her cat. That cannot be healthy.\u201d <\/p>\n

I was so flattered that Rachel thought I was still in my thirties that I didn\u2019t put up half the fight I should have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But things go wrong from the start: his car dies, the bridge to the property washes out just as he was crossing, and he found a dead body while trudging to the lodge where the conference was being held.<\/p>\n

Christopher is a bit of a queen, which initially put me off or perhaps made me uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

I jumped up and started yelling, \u201cHelp! Help!\u201d <\/p>\n

I never said I was the hero of this story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But I eventually got settled into Christopher being a little bit prissy and not at all an action hero, and got down to enjoying the story, which was quite good.<\/p>\n

Christopher is, of course, snarky, but he also realizes that snark and sarcasm are a defense that he needs to work on.<\/p>\n

Of course, sometimes the snark is deserved.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you ever read a story by Poe called \u2018The Purloined Letter\u2019?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d <\/p>\n

My eyes widened. Maybe this higher education thing was a waste of time. What were <\/em>they having these kids read?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a M\/M romance and an interesting mystery, and I quite enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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