{"id":2349,"date":"2023-03-02T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2023-03-16T20:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:57:32","slug":"a-twisted-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"A Twisted Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never has a book been more accurately named. Downing introduces a couple, Wes and Ivy, who are playing a dangerous love\/hate game: they can\u2019t stay away from each other but are mutually destructive, willfully so. When Wes receives a visit at work from a detective and finds out she\u2019s from the sex-crimes unit, he knows there\u2019s only one person who could have false-reported him: Ivy. Just for fun, she\u2019s come back into his life after one of their multiple breakups. Also for kicks is her reporting of Wes as a stalker, and she\u2019s languidly irritated when tenacious Detective Karen Colglazier wants to pursue an investigation. Ivy is done with the stalking ruse and needs the police to let it go, but for once she\u2019s not calling the shots. Wes is losing control as well, not only because Ivy has come back into his life against all his friends\u2019 wishes, but because, unknown to him, he has a coworker who may be an actual stalker. Bianca is a super-efficient assistant who arrives at work before everyone else and leaves after them, using her skeleton key and type-A fa\u00e7ade to keep tabs on their personal and professional lives. The purpose? Keep reading for one of several delicious twists. This has \u201cfantastic suspense movie\u201d written all over it.<\/strong> While you\u2019re waiting, try Downing\u2019s For Your Own Good<\/em> (2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never has a book been more accurately named. Downing introduces a couple, Wes and Ivy, who are playing a dangerous love\/hate game: they can\u2019t stay away from each other but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[52,50,51],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Twisted.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Twisted.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\/2349","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=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}