{"id":3631,"date":"2011-12-30T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2011-12-30T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T18:46:58","slug":"the-ninth-wife-by-amy-stolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3631","title":{"rendered":"The Ninth Wife by Amy Stolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>The\u00c2\u00a0Ninth Wife<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/amystolls.com\/\">Amy Stolls<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Harper Paperbacks<br \/>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netgalley.com\/\">Netgalley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Ninth-Wife-200x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3632\" title=\"The Ninth Wife\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Ninth-Wife-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Ninth Wife bookcover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist Bess Gray is a single woman living in Washington, D.C. who falls in love with Rory, a charming Irish musician with a secret.\u00c2\u00a0 When Rory asks her to marry him, Bess, who had nearly given up hope of marrying at all, is horrified to find that he has eight ex-wives.\u00c2\u00a0 She sets out on a cross-country journey with the intention, unbeknownst to Rory, of seeking them out. In alternating chapters, Rory ruminates about each of his ex-wives and how he became a serial spouse.<\/p>\n<p>Along for the ride are Bess&#8217;s grandparents who&#8217;ve been married 65 years and fight constantly, her gay neighbor (himself an utter mystery), a Shar-Pei named Stella, and a mannequin named Peace.\u00c2\u00a0 Will Bess say yes to Rory?\u00c2\u00a0 Would a sane woman really consider becoming any man&#8217;s ninth wife?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stolls perfectly captures the voices of Bess and Rory. Bess is hoping to have something more in her life while\u00c2\u00a0Rory is a hopeless romantic. They couldn&#8217;t meet at a better time in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The chapters about Rory&#8217;s wives demonstrate how seriously he takes marriage. Every marriage could&#8217;ve been reduced down to a line or two to sum up why it didn&#8217;t work out.<\/p>\n<p>Parallel to the main romance is Bess&#8217;s grandparents who have been married a long time. Their tale shows that sometimes, even if your marriage is a long lasting one, there are problems under the surface.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a romantic then you&#8217;ll like this book. If you&#8217;re a cynic then you may want to read something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The\u00c2\u00a0Ninth Wife Author: Amy Stolls Publisher:\u00c2\u00a0Harper Paperbacks Source: Netgalley Thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist Bess Gray is a single woman living in Washington, D.C. who falls in love with Rory, a charming Irish musician with a secret.\u00c2\u00a0 When Rory asks her to marry him, Bess, who had nearly given up hope of marrying&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3631\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ninth Wife by Amy Stolls<\/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":[476,477],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-amy-stolls","tag-the-ninth-wife-a-novel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","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=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}