{"id":3681,"date":"2024-05-23T00:47:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:19:49","slug":"vantage-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"Vantage Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ultra-wealthy Wieland family seems determined to prove that money can\u2019t buy happiness. Their pain-filled past has created a persistent myth that they\u2019re cursed, with family members dying in spectacularly awful ways, including on the Titanic. The deaths all happen in April, and as this absorbing thriller opens, so does that terrible month. Orphaned by the curse, or so she believes, is Clara, who\u2019s long suffered from bulimia and lives in a house on the grounds of her family\u2019s compound in Maine. In the neighboring mansion, Vantage Point, live her brother, Teddy, and his wife, Jess, who\u2019s Clara\u2019s best friend and formerly a poor local. Teddy is running for the U.S. Senate and the stakes are high for the family to portray a happy, successful front, which means keeping the uninhibited Clara mostly hidden. But someone has other ideas, and a brutal sex video is released to the public featuring a much younger, drunk, emaciated Clara (details are very much on the page). It\u2019s the first in a line of humiliating videos that Clara thinks are fake but can\u2019t be sure, making technology an interesting plot point alongside the family turmoil.<strong> Sligar\u2019s character creation and portrayal of family and class dynamics are superb, adding to a realistic and gripping tale with a satisfying ending.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultra-wealthy Wieland family seems determined to prove that money can\u2019t buy happiness. Their pain-filled past has created a persistent myth that they\u2019re cursed, with family members dying in spectacularly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[108,204,50,51],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-gothic","tag-literary-fiction","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Vantage-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Vantage-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\/3681","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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}