{"id":3641,"date":"2021-12-08T17:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T22:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2021-12-08T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T22:20:37","slug":"book-review-priority-target-by-ethan-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Priority Target by Ethan Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/24028373-priority-target\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/24028373-priority-target\">Priority Target<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5826954.Ethan_Jones\">Ethan Jones<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/4378232054\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>I don&#8217;t generally post reviews of books that I didn&#8217;t particularly like (mostly because books are a deeply personal thing, and authors work hard at their craft, regardless of whether I liked the book or not), but this book irked me in ways that I felt the need to express.<br>I started reading it because I like action\/adventure\/thriller books, but the main protagonist in these types of books is almost always male. In this case, the author made a deliberate choice to have a female protagonist, and I was intrigued.<br>Unfortunately, the book was a disappointment. The plot was quite interesting and was well-paced, so that was a plus. But if you are going to write a female protagonist, you&#8217;re going to have to do better at differentiating the protagonist than throwaway lines like &#8220;I put on mascara and lipstick&#8221; or &#8220;I brushed my hair and put it in a ponytail.&#8221; There <em>are<\/em> differences between a male and a female protagonist that go beyond hair, makeup, and clothing. Not exploring those differences shows a lamentable lack of imagination by the author.<br>So I&#8217;m passing on this series. If you are interested in female protagonists in thrillers, I highly recommend Greg Rucka&#8217;s Queen and Country series. At least the female protagonist in his books is not messing with her lipstick.<br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priority Target by Ethan Jones My rating: 2 of 5 stars I don&#8217;t generally post reviews of books that I didn&#8217;t particularly like (mostly because books are a deeply personal thing, and authors work hard at their craft, regardless of whether I liked the book or not), but this book irked me in ways that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,632,119],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-carrie-chronicles","tag-thrillers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-WJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}