{"id":999,"date":"2015-11-09T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=999"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T22:47:56","slug":"episode-34-whisper-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-34-whisper-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 34 &#8211; Whisper of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/whisper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1000 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/whisper-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"Whisper of Death by Christopher Pike\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/whisper-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/whisper.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kait, Renata, and their guests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/abbylibrarian\">Abby <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbythelibrarian.com\">The Librarian<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mollybackes\">Molly<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mollybackes.com\/\">author<\/a> of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20sHyPR\">The Princesses of Iowa<\/a>) <\/em>read <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20sHm2R\"><em>Whisper of Death<\/em> by Christopher Pike<\/a>. It&#8217;s arguably even more bonkers than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-05-scavenger-hunt\/\">the last Christopher Pike book they read<\/a>, even though it doesn&#8217;t even have any lizard people in it (as far as we can tell). Listen now to hear us attempt to unpack this convoluted, anti-bullying, anti-choice, 90s teen thriller!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Content warning: <\/strong>This book contains sexual assault and abortion, and so does our discussion of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-34-whisper-of-death\/\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mollybackes.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/tips-for-teens-from-christopher-pike.html\">Tips for Teens from Christopher Pike<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candy pairing:\u00a0 <\/strong>Abby says <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20sJ1FK\">Baby Bottle Pops<\/a>, Kait says <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20sJ6tc\">Milk Duds<\/a>, Molly says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbeast.com\/news\/halloween-candy-bag\/\">Snickers with glass shards<\/a>, Renata says <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1MxM595\">dark chocolate espresso beans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20sHUWw\">Purity<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20sHUWw\"> by Jonathan Franzen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* <em>Worst Bestsellers<\/em> <em>is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;node=1000&amp;site-redirect=&amp;tag=worstbests0e-20&amp;linkId=Z2A4ORUYFZJ4UA6Q\">Amazon.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1234\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-999-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/34WhisperOfDeath.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/34WhisperOfDeath.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/34WhisperOfDeath.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/34WhisperOfDeath.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=999-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/34WhisperOfDeath.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"34WhisperOfDeath.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kait, Renata, and their guests Abby (The Librarian) and Molly (author of The Princesses of Iowa) read Whisper of Death by Christopher Pike. It&#8217;s arguably even more bonkers than the last Christopher Pike book they read, even though it doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-34-whisper-of-death\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62,6,477],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-christopher-pike","tag-podcast","tag-whisper-of-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}