{"id":2028,"date":"2022-08-18T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:34:13","slug":"he-said-he-would-be-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"He Said He Would Be Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for a psychological game? Liz Bennett wasn\u2019t, but that\u2019s what her marriage has turned out to be\u2014but is the game a one-sided figment of her imagination, or is her husband, Arno, an adulterer who\u2019s playing her along? The backdrop to the maybe game is deep unhappiness and insecurity on Liz\u2019s part. She and Arno are new parents, and motherhood is more difficult than she imagined. It\u2019s not very enjoyable, with baby Emma looking at her \u201clike she\u2019s an elderly spinster I\u2019m grooming for her banking information,\u201d and no time or energy to write a follow-up to her semi-successful first novel. At least she has Arno, who\u2019s worried about his wife\u2019s happiness and shows love and support for her at every turn\u2014a steadfast situation that she\u2019s terrified to lose after she sees a text to him from an attractive coworker, a message that could signify a romance. Liz is soon spiraling into an abyss of fear and suspicion, one that\u2019s incredible enough to keep readers turning the pages but believable enough to elicit real empathy for this broken soul. Sullivan has a way with characters, using dialog and Liz\u2019s astute, cutting observations to bring Arno, crunchy-granola nanny Kyle, and bitchy-perfect sister-in-law Rose (\u201cI\u2019ve been up since 4 a.m.\u201d) to gossip-worthy life. <strong>Fans of women\u2019s fiction will eat this up.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for a psychological game? Liz Bennett wasn\u2019t, but that\u2019s what her marriage has turned out to be\u2014but is the game a one-sided figment of her imagination, or is her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,84,52,53],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-family-life","tag-marriage-divorce","tag-psychological","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Said-He-Would-Be-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Said-He-Would-Be-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}