{"id":5671,"date":"2016-02-23T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2022-10-31T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T22:19:01","slug":"tears-of-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5671","title":{"rendered":"Tears of Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002LA09VC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B002LA09VC&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=OVIOCMJQND3GUV65\">Tears of Pearl<\/a><\/em> (2009) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/alexandert.php\">Tasha Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002LA09VC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002LA09VC&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkId=OVIOCMJQND3GUV65\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5672\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Tears-of-Peral.png?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tears-of-Peral\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Tears-of-Peral.png?w=668&amp;ssl=1 668w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Tears-of-Peral.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Set in Europe in 1892<\/p>\n<p>There are many problematic things with this story. I liked the historical bits, but the way Lady Emily was let into the Harem etc just seemed a bit far fetched, and I also had difficulty believing Emily actions regarding the harem.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she rebels to some extent to the constricts of society, but she is still a woman of her time, and her thoughts and actions just seemed too modern.<\/p>\n<p>I was also not overly thrilled with the mystery. It wasn&#8217;t bad, but it too was a little far-fetched.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Minotaur Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tears of Pearl (2009) Tasha Alexander Set in Europe in 1892 There are many problematic things with this story. I liked the historical bits, but the way Lady Emily was let into the Harem etc just seemed a bit far fetched, and I also had difficulty believing Emily actions regarding the harem. Yes, she rebels [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"_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":[30,48,33,8,26],"tags":[242,241,557],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-female","category-historical","category-mystery","category-romance","tag-lady-emily","tag-tasha-alexander","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1tt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3307,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3307","url_meta":{"origin":5671,"position":0},"title":"And Only to Deceive","author":"Michelle","date":"November 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"And Only to Deceive (2005) Tasha Alexander I read And Only to Deceive back in 2007 and found it a disappointment--I wanted a straight up mystery, but instead god a romance with elements of mystery. 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That was my least favorite part of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;British&quot;","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"A-Fatal-Waltz","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/A-Fatal-Waltz.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4788,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4788","url_meta":{"origin":5671,"position":3},"title":"A Poisoned Season","author":"Michelle","date":"August 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A Poisoned Season (2007) Tasha Alexander The second Lady Emily mystery finds Lady Emily Ashton still trying to find her place in society as a widow, and battling her mother's domineering attempts to get Emily remarried. Emily is still refusing Colin Hargreaves offer of marriage, but not because she doesn't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;British&quot;","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"poisoned_season","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/poisoned_season.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4791,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4791","url_meta":{"origin":5671,"position":4},"title":"A Fatal Waltz","author":"Michelle","date":"August 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A Fatal Waltz (2008) Tasha Alexander The third Lady Emily book finds Emily engaged to Colin Hargreaves, however, his work has caused their wedding to be put off, and now Lord Fortescue is doing everything he can to break their engagement for he doesn't like Emily, and believes Colin's work\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;British&quot;","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"fatal-waltz","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fatal-waltz.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5665,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5665","url_meta":{"origin":5671,"position":5},"title":"A Poisoned Season","author":"Michelle","date":"February 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A Poisoned Season (2007) Tasha Alexander Set in London ~1890 The mystery here involves the supposed son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and a thief who seems to specialize in articles once owned by the former queen. I do enjoy the dialog in this series. \u201cAnd, Emily\u201d\u2014he grew serious\u2014\u201cif\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;British&quot;","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"A-Poisoned-Season","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/A-Poisoned-Season.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}