{"id":2444,"date":"2021-09-30T20:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2023-04-28T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:51:22","slug":"the-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2444","title":{"rendered":"The Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best-plotted thrillers I\u2019ve read in ages; it\u2019s also a great portrayal of why women experiencing domestic violence are stuck. We meet Leah Dawson during her carefully choreographed routine of visiting a different liquor store every day. She hides the booze from her violent husband, Liam, a lawyer who has coercive control down to an artform. Leah\u2019s legal career came to an end recently because her husband didn\u2019t like her reading a work email at dinner, and took action. At the liquor store, something compels Leah to follow a fellow shopper, pediatrician McKenna Hawkins. Soon Leah\u2019s routinely watching the woman, who\u2019s also needlessly unemployed, from the street outside McKenna\u2019s clinically clean home. The reason Leah felt drawn to McKenna is quickly apparent: McKenna is just like Leah, or rather McKenna\u2019s husband, Zach, is just like Leah\u2019s Liam. Both have ego to spare, enjoy speaking slowly to their wives to make them feel stupid, and are financially abusive. These guys have it all, until they don\u2019t. <strong>No spoilers here, but get this book for the very original storyline, true-to-life characters, and a searing look at the pain and mind games endured behind too many closed doors.<\/strong> For more on why \u201cshe can leave any time\u201d is ridiculous and insulting, read the afterword by Murphy, an attorney who\u2019s represented survivors of intimate partner violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best-plotted thrillers I\u2019ve read in ages; it\u2019s also a great portrayal of why women experiencing domestic violence are stuck. We meet Leah Dawson during her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[57,164,50,51],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-domestic","tag-star","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Favor-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Favor-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\/2444","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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}