{"id":2643,"date":"2010-07-29T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2010-07-10T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T17:20:13","slug":"bleeding-heart-square-by-andrew-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2643","title":{"rendered":"Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>Bleeding Heart Square<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> Andrew Taylor<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Hyperion Books<br \/>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong>LibraryThing Early Reviewer from February 2009 batch that arrived in January 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bleedingcov_tp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2644\" title=\"Bleeding Heart Square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bleedingcov_tp.jpg\" alt=\"Bleeding Heart Square Book Cover\" width=\"154\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lydia Langstone leaves her aristocratic husband to live with her father in the seedy Bleeding Heart Square until she decides how to proceed with her life.\u00c2\u00a0 It is 1934 &#8211; she has no money and no practical skills to earn a living.\u00c2\u00a0 Her mother and stepfather would only urge her to return to her husband which she won&#8217;t do after he hit her.\u00c2\u00a0 Her father is a stranger to her but the social niceties of the era will not allow him to turn her away.\u00c2\u00a0 The boarding house he lives in is under scrutiny by the police.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Without meaning to, Lydia finds herself involved in the mystery of what happened to the\u00c2\u00a0boarding house owner&#8217;s wife.\u00c2\u00a0 Can she trust anyone who lives in Bleeding Heart Square?<\/p>\n<p>Taylor has created an atmospheric mystery with twists.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the twists are obvious but not all of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Months after reading this, the plot is easy to recall but the characters aren&#8217;t as easy.\u00c2\u00a0 This was enjoyable while reading but won&#8217;t leave a lingering impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Bleeding Heart Square Author: Andrew Taylor Publisher: Hyperion Books Source:LibraryThing Early Reviewer from February 2009 batch that arrived in January 2010 Lydia Langstone leaves her aristocratic husband to live with her father in the seedy Bleeding Heart Square until she decides how to proceed with her life.\u00c2\u00a0 It is 1934 &#8211; she has no&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2643\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[222,219],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-andrew-taylor","tag-bleeding-heart-square","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}