{"id":11302,"date":"2016-11-23T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2016-11-23T08:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:12:40","slug":"book-25-of-52-high-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/book-25-of-52-high-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 25 (of 52) &#8211; High Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11304\" style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/book-25-of-52-high-heat\/high-heat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11304\" class=\"wp-image-11304 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/high-heat.jpg\" alt=\"high-heat\" width=\"372\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/high-heat.jpg 372w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/high-heat-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Heat &#8211; Richard Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While <em>Castle<\/em> may have come to an end this spring, the novels supposedly written by Nathan Fillion&#8217;s character continue on. \u00a0In <em>High Heat<\/em>, the latest effort from Richard Castle, the murder of a journalist as part of a supposed jihad sets Nikki Heat and her detective squad on a case that puts Jameson Rook&#8217;s life at risk.<\/p>\n<p>While the plot of the novel was fine, there were 2 things that bothered me. \u00a0First, the ending incorporated one of the things that everyone hated about the last season of <em>Castle<\/em>, a forced breakup of the main characters for contrived reasons. \u00a0Second, while the series of Nikki Heat novels has always included a few nudges and winks towards the show, this book leaves the winks behind and instead pulls out a sledgehammer to make sure you notice those in-jokes. \u00a0Beyond those two complaints, the book was enjoyable and the cliffhanger ending would lead one to believe there will be another installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Castle may have come to an end this spring, the novels supposedly written by Nathan Fillion&#8217;s character continue on. \u00a0In High Heat, the latest effort from Richard Castle, the murder of a journalist as part of a supposed jihad sets Nikki Heat and her detective squad on a case that puts Jameson Rook&#8217;s life [&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":[67,7017,69,775],"class_list":["post-11302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-castle","tag-high-heat","tag-nathan-fillion","tag-richard-castle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","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=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11309,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}