{"id":19616,"date":"2025-12-03T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=19616"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:07:16","slug":"the-boyfriend-fried-mcfadden-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/the-boyfriend-fried-mcfadden-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boyfriend &#8211; Freida McFadden (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sydney is looking for a boyfriend, but this seems challenging in New York. One night, her date forces her into a kiss, but she is saved by a very attractive guy who she meets again a few weeks later and who becomes her ideal boyfriend. Meanwhile, her friend Bonnie is savagely murdered in her apartment. The story seems too easy to solve, and Sydney is not the cleverest of girls. However, the ending has a nice twist that ties everything together. It&#8217;s not an outstanding novel, but it&#8217;s entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cIt feels like a new word needs to be created to encompass the last two hours spent in my bedroom. Like, I don\u2019t know\u2026mind-blowingly\u2026unbecredifabulous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-colibri-color-4-color\">Listened to as an audiobook<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney is looking for a boyfriend, but this seems challenging in New York. One night, her date forces her into a kiss, but she is saved by a very attractive guy who she meets again a few weeks later and who becomes her ideal boyfriend. Meanwhile, her friend Bonnie is savagely murdered in her apartment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[270],"tags":[59,64,99],"class_list":["post-19616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2025","tag-crime","tag-madness","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/john-carlo-tubelleza-Vxb3BaNXIvo-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20017,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions\/20017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}