{"id":11615,"date":"2016-12-30T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2016-12-30T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:28:14","slug":"book-31-of-52-a-raging-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/book-31-of-52-a-raging-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 31 (of 52) &#8211; A Raging Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11617\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ragingstorm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11617\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11617\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ragingstorm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ragingstorm.jpg 331w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ragingstorm-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Raging Storm &#8211; Richard Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>A Raging Storm<\/em>, part 2 of Richard Castle&#8217;s 3-part novella detailing the return of his original hero Derrick Storm, picks up where the <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/book-29-of-52-a-brewing-storm\/\">last one<\/a> left off, with a dead US senator and Storm and FBI agent April Showers on the case.\u00a0 The leads take them to London, where an exiled Russian oligarch has taken residence after speaking out against the President of Russia, his former friend.\u00a0 A few twists and turns later, and we end with Showers shot\u00a0and Storm having crashed into a country wall.<\/p>\n<p>This eBook works much less effectively as a standalone story.\u00a0 While Castle tries to bring readers up to speed with what happened previously, I can&#8217;t imagine going in to this blind and following the story.\u00a0 The ending also seemed more like a chapter break than the end of a self-contained story.\u00a0 But, I guess if you&#8217;ve made it this far, they assume you will be sticking around for the final chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Raging Storm, part 2 of Richard Castle&#8217;s 3-part novella detailing the return of his original hero Derrick Storm, picks up where the last one left off, with a dead US senator and Storm and FBI agent April Showers on the case.\u00a0 The leads take them to London, where an exiled Russian oligarch has taken [&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":[7052,775],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-raging-storm","tag-richard-castle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","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=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11621,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}