{"id":6025,"date":"2021-03-30T19:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:02:38","slug":"avid-andover-reader-book-review-close-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2021\/03\/30\/avid-andover-reader-book-review-close-my-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Avid Andover Reader Book Review &#8211; \u201cClose My Eyes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/search.clevnet.org\/client\/en_US\/andv-main\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:6858108\/one\"><em>Close My Eyes<\/em> by Sophie McKenzie of London<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Dawn Bechtel, Andover Ohio Avid Reader (listener)\u00a0 \u00a03\/2021<\/p>\n<p>Author of this book, Sophie McKenzie writes mostly thrillers although she has also done some teen romance stories.\u00a0 \u201cClose My Eyes\u201d is her first psychological thriller for adult readers (pub May 2013, UK, July 2013, US)<\/p>\n<p>I listened to this in audiobook format and must admit that the performer was not my favorite.\u00a0 So the book\/e-book format might be better enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Geniver Loxley has never recovered from the stillborn birth of her daughter eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Art, anxiously pushes to have another child and to move on with their lives, but Geniver is still grieving. \u00a0A female stranger shows up telling Gen that her baby had been born alive and was taken away by the doctor and that her husband helped. \u00a0The shocking news makes Gen suspicious and unsure of whether she can trust her husband, she turns to an old colleague of Art\u2019s, Lorcan, who is now a successful actor and is extremely empathetic. As the two investigate, they discover some shocking secrets that put their lives in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClose My Eyes\u201d is a thriller with many twists and quite a surprise at the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5990\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5990\" class=\"wp-image-5990 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-125x125.png 125w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-45x45.png 45w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Bechtel enjoys reading and listening to books available through the library&#8217;s online catalog. She is an active member of the Friends of the Andover Public Library and also loves to work outside in her garden.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie of London By Dawn Bechtel, Andover Ohio Avid Reader (listener)\u00a0 \u00a03\/2021 Author of this book, Sophie McKenzie writes mostly thrillers although she has also done some teen romance stories.\u00a0 \u201cClose My Eyes\u201d is her first psychological thriller for adult readers (pub May 2013, UK, July 2013, US) I listened<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2021\/03\/30\/avid-andover-reader-book-review-close-my-eyes\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-digital-book-displays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}