{"id":2442,"date":"2013-09-22T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2013-09-22T11:17:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T16:17:55","slug":"your-saturday-book-review-on-sunday-remix-lexi-revillian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"Your Saturday Book Review on Sunday — Remix, Lexi Revillian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m not normally a big fan of the “accidental detective” school of mystery, but Lexi Revellian makes Remix<\/a> work. The initially implausible situation — a young woman meets a man and his dog whom she finds camped out on her rooftop terrace and invites them in for breakfast — is somehow made quite believable. The author accomplishes this magical feat by giving us a narrator\/protagonist who is real, likable, interesting and layered. The pacing works and the writing never gets in its own way. While there’s certainly a chick-lit quality to this — Caz is single, young, attractive and has more than one character interested in pursuing a romance with her, this lacks the whiney quality of a lot of that genre and should appeal to anyone (male or female) who likes a good mystery. If Caz continues to find herself involved with investigations, I’ll be happy to follow her adventures.<\/p>\n

This is a great book to read on a rainy day, plane trip, during your lunch break, etc. It’s a short, quick, easy page turner.<\/p>\n

BTW, this is another of those \u201cindie\u201d books available for 99 cents on Kindle. (There’s a paperback as well.) It came out in 2010 and became a bestseller at the Kindle Store in the UK. It didn’t do as well in the US. Some US reviewers complained about the Britishisms. I like that kind of thing, and had no trouble figuring out the meaning of the occasional regionalism based on context. It’s not exactly another language!<\/p>\n

Revellian has since published a few other books. Replica<\/em><\/a> the second, was quite a bit darker and a genuine \u201cthriller\u201d with a sci-fi element. It too featured a strong young female protagonist. <\/p>\n

The author has developed a loyal following. I haven’t read any of the others<\/a>. Some are firmly on the fantasy shelf, and I don’t generally read that genre. If you do, you might want to check them out. They’re all easy on the wallet.<\/p>\n

(Marion also has some books <\/a>of her own you might enjoy, but being a shy type, she won’t mention them here.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not normally a big fan of the “accidental detective” school of mystery, but Lexi Revellian makes Remix work. The initially implausible situation — a young woman meets a man and his dog whom she finds camped out on her rooftop terrace and invites them in for breakfast — is somehow made quite believable. The … Continue reading Your Saturday Book Review on Sunday — Remix, Lexi Revillian<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[774,773,772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}