{"id":517,"date":"2011-05-29T19:49:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2011-08-28T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:46:18","slug":"book-9-of-52-%e2%80%93-deaths-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/book-9-of-52-%e2%80%93-deaths-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 9 (of 52) \u2013 Death&#8217;s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_518\" style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deaths-Daughter-Calliope-Reaper-Jones-Novel\/dp\/0441016944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-518\" class=\"size-full wp-image-518\" title=\"dd_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dd_cover.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dd_cover.gif 372w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dd_cover-186x300.gif 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death&#39;s Daughter - Amber Benson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Death&#8217;s Daughter is the first in a series of books following Calliope Reaper-Jones, a low-level assistant navigating Manhattan and, by the way, the heir to Death&#8217;s throne.\u00a0 Someone has kidnapped her father, so she must take up the mantle to find him before she is framed for the kidnapping herself.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-talented Amber Benson strikes out on her own with this series, having previosly teamed up with Christopher Golden on previous works.\u00a0 Here she crafts a believable, insecure woman thrust into a job she isn&#8217;t sure she wants or is ready for.\u00a0 It did take a few tries before I really got into it, but once I did, I ran through the book at a nice clip.\u00a0 There are two more books in the series (so far), so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be checking back on Calliope&#8217;s further adventures soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death&#8217;s Daughter is the first in a series of books following Calliope Reaper-Jones, a low-level assistant navigating Manhattan and, by the way, the heir to Death&#8217;s throne.\u00a0 Someone has kidnapped her father, so she must take up the mantle to find him before she is framed for the kidnapping herself. The multi-talented Amber Benson strikes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[712,714,713,715,758],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-amber-benson","tag-calliope-reaper-jones","tag-christopher-golden","tag-death","tag-deaths-daughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}