{"id":21503,"date":"2024-05-30T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2024-05-29T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T02:16:44","slug":"book-21-of-52-the-house-of-last-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/book-21-of-52-the-house-of-last-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 21 (of 52) &#8211; The House Of Last Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21504\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/houseoflastresort.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21504\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21504\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/houseoflastresort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/houseoflastresort.jpg 329w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/houseoflastresort-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The House of Last Resort &#8211; Christopher Golden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A young couple moves to a small town in Sicily from the US, hoping to find a simpler life and reconnect with family.\u00a0 Instead, they find a secret about their new house which makes everyone uncomfortable.\u00a0 As strange occurrences happen and they learn more about the history of their new home, they come to a serious conclusion: demonic possession is real.\u00a0 Can they escape before the demons come for them?<\/p>\n<p><em>The House of Last Resort<\/em> is the latest from Christopher Golden, who I have read mostly in connection with the <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> franchise.\u00a0 I liked the setup, but the overall story didn&#8217;t grab me.\u00a0 There was a lot of the plot driven by choices that nobody in real life would have made, seemingly just to get to the next plot point.\u00a0 I guess you can&#8217;t win them all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young couple moves to a small town in Sicily from the US, hoping to find a simpler life and reconnect with family.\u00a0 Instead, they find a secret about their new house which makes everyone uncomfortable.\u00a0 As strange occurrences happen and they learn more about the history of their new home, they come to a [&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":[106,713,11384],"class_list":["post-21503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-buffy","tag-christopher-golden","tag-the-house-of-last-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503","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=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21505,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions\/21505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}