{"id":290,"date":"2007-12-12T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2007-12-12T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:45:50","slug":"murder-with-deja-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Murder with Deja Vu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along the way I finished reading <em>Murder with Peacock<\/em>s but forgot to mention it. Oops. Well, here goes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Murder with Peacock<\/em>s by Donna Andrews<\/p>\n<p>Grade: B<\/p>\n<p>This is another Meg Langslow mystery (the first, actually) and it is likable, just like the other two I already read. This time, Meg is the maid of honor and wedding planner for three brides: her mother, her future sister-in-law, and her best friend. When an obnoxious party guest is found murdered, it&#8217;s up to Meg to find the murderer while keeping all of the weddings on track.<\/p>\n<p>Had I read this first, I might have liked it best, but I am now quite tired of the author&#8217;s formula. I am also unhappy with the way that the characters behave sometimes. Meg breaks into houses without breaking a sweat, and when her future boyfriend catches her in the act, he accepts it with amazing nonchalance. Hey! It&#8217;s called lawbreaking and you can go to jail for it. At the very least, treat it as an unusual occurrence!<\/p>\n<p><em>Murder with Peacocks<\/em> still gets a B for being easy, enjoyable reading, but it&#8217;s the last book from this series for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along the way I finished reading Murder with Peacocks but forgot to mention it. Oops. Well, here goes. Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews Grade: B This is another Meg Langslow mystery (the first, actually) and it is likable, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}