{"id":16037,"date":"2026-04-08T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16037"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:54:15","slug":"dark-light-by-randy-wayne-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/dark-light-by-randy-wayne-white\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dark Light” by Randy Wayne White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Copyright 2006 by Randy Wayne White. Published by the Berkeley Publishing Group, New York.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Randy Wayne White is an author who lives in – and writes about – southwest Florida. His books, with settings familiar to me, have special interest. I wanted very much to enjoy Dark Light<\/em>, his 13th book featuring marine biologist Doc Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to enjoy it but didn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I wasn’t in the right frame of mind (whatever that might be) to enjoy his writing or maybe his literary cheese is slipping off the cracker, but whatever the reason I simply couldn’t get by the first 50 pages. The plot was so confusing and the characters were so poorly formed that I just gave up. It just wasn’t worth the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 out of 10. I would have given it a 1 but maybe I would have liked it more if I had fought through to the end. But I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2006 by Randy Wayne White. Published by the Berkeley Publishing Group, New York. Randy Wayne White is an author who lives in – and writes about – southwest Florida. His books, with settings familiar to me, have special interest. I wanted very much to enjoy Dark Light, his 13th book featuring marine biologist Doc … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4aF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16038,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions\/16038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}