{"id":1903,"date":"2016-03-24T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2016-03-24T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:39:28","slug":"libby-fischer-hellmann-jump-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/libby-fischer-hellmann-jump-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Libby Fischer Hellmann: Jump Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JumpCut\"This book marks the welcome return of Hellman\u2019s original series character, filmmaker Ellie Foreman. While it\u2019s been a good long while since Ellie\u2019s debut, there haven\u2019t been enough books about her as the prolific Hellman has chosen to explore other characters and other times and places along with writing about her signature character. I was more than glad to rejoin Ellie in suburban Chicago, as she\u2019s hard at work on a project for a company that makes all kinds of aircraft. They are trying to appeal to the wider public and Ellie\u2019s videos, meant to be posted on social media, are supposed to be a kind of a friendly gateway for their customers.<\/p>\n

Ellie is feeling very positively about the work she\u2019s producing and excited to show it off when she\u2019s asked to do so at a company board meeting; but she\u2019s stunned when the VP, Charlotte Hollander, trashes the video and fires her on the spot. Her reaction is both anger and a burning curiosity to find out why.<\/em> As a good detective, curiosity is one of Ellie\u2019s salient characteristics, and she\u2019s almost compelled to take the path she ends up taking.<\/p>\n

She feels she\u2019s being followed \u2013 or is she being paranoid? She\u2019s smart enough to know something is up, and her protective, sweet boyfriend wants her to have nothing more to do with the company that fired her. However, when Ellie sets up a meeting with one of the guys who was hanging around while she was filming and arrives in time for her to see his accidental death under the wheels of a commuter train, she\u2019s about ready to walk away when she finds a flash drive in a cigarette box that she\u2019s sure belonged to he dead man. She takes it with her and begins to look into the flash drive on her own.<\/p>\n

Her investigation leads her into a tangled web of espionage, counter spies and more deaths before the solution is found. As a main character, Ellie is so appealing I am almost willing to read about her as she goes about her daily life \u2013 the extra stuff is more or less a bonus. When Hellman ramps up the action at the end and makes it all very personal for Ellie, she\u2019s at her very best as a writer; you\u2019re completely on Ellie\u2019s side and ready to find out what the heck is going on. This is the very welcome return of a beloved character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book marks the welcome return of Hellman\u2019s original series character, filmmaker Ellie Foreman. While it\u2019s been a good long while since Ellie\u2019s debut, there haven\u2019t been enough books about her as the prolific Hellman has chosen to explore other characters and other times and places along with writing about her signature character. I was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-americancozy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}