{"id":1925,"date":"2022-09-29T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:31:58","slug":"device-free-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Device Free Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get-togethers with college friends can often be bittersweet, although as we age reunions tend to be more mellow. Except in this novel, in which a weekend with your now-middle-aged friends doesn\u2019t just end in acrimony. It leads to unimaginable destruction, and I\u2019m not talking about damage to the wine cellar. \u00dcber billionaire Ryan Cloverhill\u2014substitute him with your least favorite tech CEO\u2014has invited his six closest college friends to an all-expenses-paid weekend on his private island in Puget Sound. Although they haven\u2019t been in touch much lately, this group lived together throughout college, dated one another, and roomed together as adults, with the assumption that they would always be there for one another. After Ryan collects all their devices and locks them away\u2014painful!\u2014the weekend kicks off with plenty of wine, glorious food, and a sunset cruise. But the next morning, the six wake up, bleary-eyed, only to discover that Ryan is gone, they\u2019re locked in the mansion, there\u2019s a tablet computer teasing them (\u201cUnlock Me!\u201d), and they need to work together to discover the code. Yes, it\u2019s another locked-on-an-island mystery, but the ingredients are so unusual and the plot so outrageous that this is completely unique.<strong> Readers will love the fast pace, the wonderful integration of technology, the mad Ryan\u2014somewhat reminiscent of Dr. No\u2014and the development of the hostages.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get-togethers with college friends can often be bittersweet, although as we age reunions tend to be more mellow. Except in this novel, in which a weekend with your now-middle-aged friends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[52,50,72,51],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-technological","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Device-Free-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Device-Free-1-400x600.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\/1925","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=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}