{"id":2398,"date":"2021-11-04T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2023-04-28T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:49:15","slug":"dark-circles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"Dark Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A foray into the wacky world of wellness led by my favorite character of the year, Olivia (Liv) Reed. Thirty-something Liv, an actor starring in a long-running TV series, is a bit down on her luck. The paparazzi caught her making out with a man who is not her boyfriend, and photos of her ensuing meltdown on the streets of Manhattan were published everywhere. Liv\u2019s also a bit too hands-on with the booze and pills, and her relationship with her one friend, also her publicist\/handler, is on the ropes. Begrudgingly, she agrees to check in to the House of Light\u2014don\u2019t call it rehab!\u2014in upstate New York, which bills itself as a spiritual center. But before you can say namaste, the body of a young woman turns up in the adjoining lake\u2014she had ties to House of Light\u2014and when Liv learns she\u2019s just the latest in a series of what are being called suicides, she\u2019s off and running. Smartly, Liv uses her celebrityhood to start a podcast that becomes wildly successful and allows her to present the investigation in nearly real time. <strong>Comparisons to <em>Nine Perfect Strangers<\/em>, the Liane Moriarty book\/Hulu series starring Nicole Kidman, are inevitable\u2014and should be helpful in promoting this book\u2014but <em>Dark Circles<\/em> is even better. After all, it\u2019s got the sarcastic, sophisticated, completely credible, and even sometimes vulnerable voice of Liv Reed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foray into the wacky world of wellness led by my favorite character of the year, Olivia (Liv) Reed. Thirty-something Liv, an actor starring in a long-running TV series, is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[59,164,50,51,53],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-literary","tag-star","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dark-Circles-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dark-Circles-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\/2398","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=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}