{"id":11158,"date":"2016-10-30T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2016-10-30T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T16:33:44","slug":"book-22-of-52-dead-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/book-22-of-52-dead-even\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 22 (of 52) &#8211; Dead Even"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11161\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=11161\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11161\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11161\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/deadeven.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Even - Brad Meltzer\" width=\"279\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/deadeven.jpg 279w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/deadeven-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dead Even &#8211; Brad Meltzer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brad Meltzer&#8217;s second novel, <em>Dead Even<\/em>, revolves around a married couple who find themselves on opposite sides of a court case, with each one being threatened with the death of the other if they do not win the case.\u00a0 After they finally confide in each other, they manage to survive the ordeal, though not without casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, when\u00a0I first discovered Meltzer&#8217;s work in the early 2000s thanks to his run with DC comics, I missed this book.\u00a0 When I stumbled upon it earlier this year, I bought it and decided to rectify that decision.\u00a0 While enjoyable, it certainly is missing some of the polish and sheen that comes with Meltzer&#8217;s later work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Meltzer&#8217;s second novel, Dead Even, revolves around a married couple who find themselves on opposite sides of a court case, with each one being threatened with the death of the other if they do not win the case.\u00a0 After they finally confide in each other, they manage to survive the ordeal, though not without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[710,2259,6985],"class_list":["post-11158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-brad-meltzer","tag-dc","tag-dead-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11165,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}