{"id":2121,"date":"2022-07-28T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:40:47","slug":"he-house-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"The House Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa, n\u00e9e Alice, Macallen, has changed her name and subjugated everything else about herself to please her unpleasable husband, Bill, who has left with no explanation. All Alyssa knows for sure is that he\u2019s taking his wealth with him and she has no job and no prenup, which he insisted was unnecessary because he was going to love her forev\u2014you know the rest. Anyway, Bill\u2019s gone and Alyssa\u2019s sitting in a hotel bar nursing her sorrows when she meets a woman who may be even worse off. Bree Lorrance is living at the hotel after getting away from an abusive boyfriend. She moves into Alyssa\u2019s guest house, and soon readers and Alyssa are wondering how things have taken such a fast turn. Far from lonely and terrifying, Alyssa\u2019s days are now taken up with helping her friend, who encounters a new tragedy that sets the women, and another player who becomes involved and moves in, on an exciting trajectory. We\u2019re left wondering whom Alyssa can trust in her new life, if anyone. Are some of these strange new people part of Bill\u2019s team or out to get her for some other reason? Or maybe Alyssa is making everything up and we\u2019ve got an unreliable narrator on our hands\u2026it\u2019s impossible to know until Ryan brings all to a satisfying ending that readers will never see coming. <strong>The author\u2019s fans will snap this up; it\u2019s also a must for Liane Moriarty\u2019s readers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa, n\u00e9e Alice, Macallen, has changed her name and subjugated everything else about herself to please her unpleasable husband, Bill, who has left with no explanation. All Alyssa knows for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[57,52,51,53],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-domestic","tag-psychological","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/House-Guest-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/House-Guest-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\/2121","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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}