{"id":5459,"date":"2015-10-25T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:36:07","slug":"fatal-remedies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5459","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fatal Remedies<\/a><\/em> (1999) Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I actually didn’t repurchase this as an ebook, because I clearly remembered not liking it the first time around.<\/p>\n

Mind you, I’m not saying it’s not good, because it is good. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it.<\/p>\n

The 8th mystery opens with Paola breaking the window of a travel agency that sells sex tours to third world countries where children can be purchased.<\/p>\n

It’s a good story, and the repercussions to Paola’s actions are fascinating, but I read quickly, because I still didn’t like it very much (though I didn’t dislike it as much as I did the first time through).<\/p>\n

Published by Penguin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fatal Remedies (1999) Donna Leon I actually didn’t repurchase this as an ebook, because I clearly remembered not liking it the first time around. Mind you, I’m not saying it’s not good, because it is good. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it. The 8th mystery opens with Paola breaking the window of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,42,41],"tags":[97,96],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-police","category-reread","tag-commissario-guido-brunetti","tag-donna-leon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1q3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":613,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/613","url_meta":{"origin":5459,"position":0},"title":"Fatal Remedies","author":"Michelle","date":"July 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Fatal Remedies (1999) Donna Leon I started Fatal Remedies immediately after I finished A Noble Radiance, wasn't sure about the direction the story was taking, and then picked it up again today, as I have a whole stack of Guido Brunetti books waiting to be read. 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And of course, once I started reading, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mystery"","block_context":{"text":"Mystery","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/mystery"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4540,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4540","url_meta":{"origin":5459,"position":4},"title":"The Golden Egg","author":"Michelle","date":"April 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Golden Egg (2013) Donna Leon I am starting, perhaps, to be disconcerted by how Brunetti and his family seem to have stopped aging. The first book was written in 1992, so twenty years have passed since that book, but time has not passed at the same rate for Brunetti.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mystery"","block_context":{"text":"Mystery","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/mystery"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Golden-Egg.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1353,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1353","url_meta":{"origin":5459,"position":5},"title":"A Sea of Troubles","author":"Michelle","date":"September 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A Sea of Troubles (2001) Donna Leon I am failing to understand the hows and whys of Penguin's publishing schedule for Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series. 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