{"id":18871,"date":"2022-03-26T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18871"},"modified":"2022-03-26T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:16:45","slug":"book-18-of-52-the-lightning-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/book-18-of-52-the-lightning-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 18 (of 52) &#8211; The Lightning Rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18872\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lightningrod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18872\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18872\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lightningrod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lightningrod.jpg 326w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lightningrod-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lightning Rod &#8211; Brad Meltzer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brad Meltzer returns with his first adult work of fiction since 2018.\u00a0 <em>The Lightning Rod<\/em> starts with the death of a reservist Colonel, and the military calls in one of their former morticians to work on him for his funeral.\u00a0 When some mysterious figures show up for the funeral, Zig, said mortician, decides to dig deeper and try to figure out what is going on.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Nola conducts her own investigation while trying to stay one step ahead of her twin brother, who has teamed up with Zig.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, when I first saw the cover of this book, which declares it &#8220;A Zig &amp; Nola Novel,&#8221; my first question was &#8220;who the hell are Zig &amp; Nola?&#8221;\u00a0 It has been a long four years since Meltzer released the <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/book-11-of-52-the-escape-artist\/\">first entry<\/a> in this series and I had very little memory of these characters.\u00a0 Because of that, it took me a while to get in to this one, but the action eventually picks up enough to carry the reader along.\u00a0\u00a0This is now the thirteenth Brad Meltzer novel that I\u2019ve read, not counting his comics work, and I am looking forward to the next one, assuming I live long enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Meltzer returns with his first adult work of fiction since 2018.\u00a0 The Lightning Rod starts with the death of a reservist Colonel, and the military calls in one of their former morticians to work on him for his funeral.\u00a0 When some mysterious figures show up for the funeral, Zig, said mortician, decides to dig [&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":[710,10016],"class_list":["post-18871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-brad-meltzer","tag-the-lightning-rod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18873,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions\/18873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}