{"id":12437,"date":"2019-05-14T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2019-05-14T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:20:00","slug":"thread-of-revenge-by-jeff-shelby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12437","title":{"rendered":"‘Thread of Revenge,’ by Jeff Shelby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Somehow I\u2019d gotten the idea<\/strong> that Jeff Shelby\u2019s \u201cThread\u201d series of mystery\/thrillers had come to an end. I was even more surprised to find that I\u2019d missed one. By which I mean that I\u2019d missed the book before the last book I reviewed here, Thread of Danger<\/em>. I have a vague idea that I noticed at the time that something big had changed. Turned out I\u2019d skipped an episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, Thread of Revenge<\/a><\/em> is the book I skipped, which I\u2019ve now read. I almost think I might have bypassed it purposely, because some awful things happen and I enjoyed this one least of them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s always necessary to give you deep background, especially with this series. It started out with the hero, Joe Tyler, searching for his daughter Elizabeth, who was snatched from his front yard just before Christmas one year. After years of searching, he did locate her (with an unaware adoptive family in Minnesota), and now the family is almost back together. He and his wife Lauren, now divorced, have been reconciling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in his quest to find Elizabeth, Joe desperately asked a\nfavor of a very bad man in Minnesota. The bad man asked him for a favor in\nreturn. Joe did not keep his part of the bargain, and lied to him about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the bad man knows. And he\u2019s kidnapped Lauren. Jack must\ndo the awful thing he promised to do, or Lauren will die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a pretty horrifying scenario. Joe has to do his best\nin a lose\/lose situation, and things will get very nasty indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found this story unpleasant, and somewhat unsatisfying.\nAlso, a major plot element didn\u2019t make sense to me \u2013 though author Shelby is\nlikely setting up a return visit to the situation in a future book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the writing\u2019s good, and I like the characters. I\u2019m\ncontinuing to read the series, as you\u2019ll learn with tomorrow\u2019s review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Thread of Revenge<\/em> was a bit of a downer. Cautions for the usual stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow I\u2019d gotten the idea that Jeff Shelby\u2019s \u201cThread\u201d series of mystery\/thrillers had come to an end. I was even more surprised to find that I\u2019d missed one. By which I mean that I\u2019d missed the book before the last book I reviewed here, Thread of Danger. I have a vague idea that I noticed … Continue reading ‘Thread of Revenge,’ by Jeff Shelby<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[1409,1451,3123],"class_list":["post-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-jeff-shelby","tag-joe-tyler","tag-thread-of-revenge"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}