{"id":1792,"date":"2023-02-02T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:24:55","slug":"relentless-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Relentless Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A supernatural mystery\u2014part Stranger Things, part Enola Homes, but very much itself\u2014set in 1909 Boston. Young Artie Quick, a Filene\u2019s basement \u201cshopgirl\u201d by day, is fascinated by criminal behavior and signs up to study Criminal Investigation at the YMCA\u2019s Evening Institute for Men. One problem? Artie is a young woman, and to pass, she has to adopt male drag and attempt to alter her voice. While she still lives with her working-class family, most of her time she\u2019s at well-off Theodore\u2019s digs\u2014her charming if awkward best friend. Theodore is as obsessed with magic as Artie is with crime, and the two take on a case: the investigation into unnatural screams heard at night in the Boston Common by homeless men and petty criminals. What seems like a minor quest ends up taking the two on a sojourn that reveals the abduction of young women, a cover-up by city officials, and the existence of a spirit underneath the city, ready to wield even greater destruction. <strong>This book is way, way over the top\u2014and is sure to delight its intended audience<\/strong>. Artie grows to love her menswear, and seems to love women as well, and her embrace of her queerness is just one of the many transformations in the book. For young adults on up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supernatural mystery\u2014part Stranger Things, part Enola Homes, but very much itself\u2014set in 1909 Boston. Young Artie Quick, a Filene\u2019s basement \u201cshopgirl\u201d by day, is fascinated by criminal behavior and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[105,54,75,74],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-fantasy","tag-historical","tag-horror","tag-mystery"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Relentless-Melt-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Relentless-Melt-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}