{"id":8698,"date":"2015-09-03T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2015-09-02T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:56:41","slug":"book-19-of-52-the-golden-age-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/book-19-of-52-the-golden-age-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 19 (of 52) &#8211; The Golden Age Of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8701\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/goldenage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8701\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8701\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/goldenage.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Age of Death - Amber Benson\" width=\"215\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/goldenage.jpg 215w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/goldenage-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Age of Death &#8211; Amber Benson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly 2 years since I last checked in on Amber Benson&#8217;s Calliope Reaper-Jones series, so it seemed like a good time to dive into <em>The Golden Age of Death<\/em>, the final installment of the series. \u00a0While fantasy is certainly not my favorite genre, I was on board for this series due to Benson, whose work as an actor I&#8217;ve admired. \u00a0While the last entry, <em>How To Be Death<\/em>, seemed to turn a page by mixing up the pace, this book was back to the tried and true formula of someone scheming to kill the newly installed grim reaper.<\/p>\n<p>While I certainly enjoyed this series, otherwise I would have bailed a long time ago, I would be lying if I said they were easy for me to get through. \u00a0Even finishing up the last 120 pages of so took me well over 2 hours. \u00a0Benson has started a new series, about witches of some sort, but I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll follow her over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly 2 years since I last checked in on Amber Benson&#8217;s Calliope Reaper-Jones series, so it seemed like a good time to dive into The Golden Age of Death, the final installment of the series. \u00a0While fantasy is certainly not my favorite genre, I was on board for this series due to Benson, [&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":[712,714,4103,5793],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-amber-benson","tag-calliope-reaper-jones","tag-how-to-be-death","tag-the-golden-age-of-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","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=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8702,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions\/8702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}