{"id":3728,"date":"2020-05-13T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2020-05-13T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:18:56","slug":"he-started-it-by-samantha-downing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"He Started It by Samantha Downing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"he<\/p>\n

Dark and tedious\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Downing\u2019s latest is an easily avoidable, disturbing tale that explores three siblings\u2019 twisted relationship as they set on to secure their inheritance. After death of their wealthy grandfather, the siblings: Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan embark on a cross-country road trip to fulfil the old man\u2019s final wish and secure their inheritance. The fateful trip starts on an unfortunate ground when a pickup truck run the siblings\u2019 car off the road in rural Alabama and set on to tail them. But that\u2019s just the beginning of a series of bizarre occurrences. The lies, backstabbing, and betrayals pile up as the trip progresses. Soon the past secrets unravel, threatening to destroy multiple lives. The story starts on a brisk note, and Downing does a fine job of folding in layers of the siblings\u2019 troubled shared pasts and dangerous secrets. But she fails to maintain the pace with all of her characters portrayed as antagonists. In the end, it is about who is the bigger evil among the characters. Easily skippable.<\/p>\n

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He Started It<\/h2>\n

By Samantha Downing<\/h3>\n

Berkley<\/h4>\n

Buy now<\/a><\/h4>\n

Pub date July 28, 2020<\/h4>\n

ISBN 9780451491756<\/h4>\n

Price $19.99 (USD)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark and tedious\u2026 Downing\u2019s latest is an easily avoidable, disturbing tale that explores three siblings\u2019 twisted relationship as they set on to secure their inheritance. After death of their wealthy grandfather, the siblings: Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan embark on a cross-country road trip to fulfil the old man\u2019s final wish and secure their inheritance. The fateful trip starts on an unfortunate ground when a pickup truck run the siblings\u2019 car off the road in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: He Started It by Samantha Downing #amreading #WritersLife #IndieAuthor #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #thrillers #suspense #psychologicalthrillers","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[91,460,3328,178,1136176,610903656,54306025,929713,1473,309,8811,4511574,66361,4965455,349],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indieauthor","tag-psychological-thriller","tag-reading","tag-reviews","tag-suspense","tag-suspense-and-thriller","tag-thrillers","tag-thrillers-and-suspense","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-Y8","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}