{"id":30101,"date":"2012-05-24T07:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30101"},"modified":"2012-05-24T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T11:58:51","slug":"kingdom-of-strangers-a-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30101","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom of Strangers; A Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Little, Brown and Company were kind enough to send me a copy of the book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kingdom-Strangers-Novel-Zo%C3%AB-Ferraris\/dp\/0316074241\">Kingdom of Strangers<\/a>&#8221; by Zo\u00eb Ferraris. I really like murder mysteries and this one is one of the best I&#8217;ve ever read. It&#8217;s about a serial killer running loose in Saudi Arabia and the cultural and religious restrictions that are placed on the women helping the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>According to the press agent, Ms. Ferraris lived in Saudi Arabia and is quite familiar with the difficulties of being a woman in that culture. The title of the book refers to the &#8220;guest workers&#8221; in Saudi Arabia and their relationship to the odd culture in which they find themselves &#8211; which results in them being the victims of this particular serial killer.<\/p>\n<p>The book not only is a very good story about solving a gruesome crime, but also shines a light on the problems Saudi Arabia faces in a 21st century world with their seventh century cultural restrictions. You should add this book to your stack of summer reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Little, Brown and Company were kind enough to send me a copy of &hellip; <a title=\"Kingdom of Strangers; A Book Review\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30101\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kingdom of Strangers; A Book Review<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}