{"id":2426,"date":"2021-10-07T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2023-04-28T22:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:49:57","slug":"this-might-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"This Might Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first crime here is psychological abuse of two sisters whose father, named only as Sir, is obsessed with building their resilience (\u201cLord knows you\u2019re not going to get by on talent or gifts\u201d). Sir\u2019s isolated, scared little girls can\u2019t go to bed at night unless they achieve enough points. Chores count, but they must also endure \u201ctests\u201d like sitting in the snow without a coat for an hour, holding their breath for two minutes, and kneeling on broken glass. The abuse leads the younger sister to become obsessed with Houdini and perfect a show based on his escapes, with the psychological underpinnings of that quest not lost on her or on readers. Fast forward to adulthood and there\u2019s possibly a new crime afoot, or at least a mystery, as one sister, Natalie, visits a Maine island where she suspects her sister, Kit, is captive in a cult led by the reclusive, mysterious Teacher. The markers of a cult are glaring, but is Kit being held against her will and what\u2019s behind the other residents\u2019 willingness to obey?<strong> The solution is satisfying here, and getting to it will bring home to readers Teacher\u2019s declaration of the book\u2019s central truth: \u201cThe difference between a cocoon and a straitjacket [is] perspective.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first crime here is psychological abuse of two sisters whose father, named only as Sir, is obsessed with building their resilience (\u201cLord knows you\u2019re not going to get by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,52,127,51,53],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-family-life","tag-psychological","tag-siblings","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Might-Hurt-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Might-Hurt-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\/2426","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=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}