🎧 Forged by Benedict Jacka @BenedictJacka‏ #GildartJackson @AceRocBooks @BerkleyPub @orbitbooks @TantorAudio ‏#LoveAudiobooks

Posted November 24, 2020 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 16 Comments

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🎧 Forged by Benedict Jacka @BenedictJacka‏ #GildartJackson @AceRocBooks  @BerkleyPub @orbitbooks @TantorAudio  ‏#LoveAudiobooks Forged by Benedict Jacka
Narrator: Gildart Jackson
Series: Alex Verus #11
Published by Ace on November 24, 2020
Genres: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 300
Length: 10 hours, 16 minutes
Format: Audiobook, eARC
Source: NetGalley, Publisher
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To protect his friends, Mage Alex Verus has had to change--and embrace his dark side. But the life mage Anne has changed too, and made a bond with a dangerous power. She's going after everyone she's got a grudge against--and it's a long list.

In the meantime, Alex has to deal with his arch-enemy, Levistus. The Council's death squads are hunting Alex as well as Anne, and the only way for Alex to stop them is to end his long war with Levistus and the Council, by whatever means necessary. It will take everything Alex has to stay a step ahead of the Council and stop Anne from letting the world burn.

I LOVED having the Alex Verus series as the Read-along choice for 2019.  I enjoyed every book.  Benedict Jacka is a clever bugger because he has me loving a spider and rooting for her!  Forged is the 11th book, so there may be some spoilers here for earlier books.  I would definitely recommend reading this series in order and the books are highly recommended.

At the end of each book, things only seem more dire for Alex.  I don’t know how he even figures out a plan. Right now with so many people trying to kill him, he is on the run and isolated most of the time.  What kind of life is that?  He can’t see any friends or they will be questioned and persecuted too.  It’s almost easier to list who isn’t a problem than who is a problem.

But the biggest issues are the council, Richard and Anne.  All three are threats.  It takes constant vigilance to stay ahead of the council who wants to execute him.  Richard may want to kill him or use him, or both.  With Anne, it is hard to know who is in charge, Anne, Dark Anne or the djinn?  He wants to get Anne away from the djinn and make a life for them, but that may not be what Anne wants.

Alex tries to stay ahead of the council while researching to learn more about djinn and get a handle on some enemies.  He comes up with some strategies for getting people to leave him alone.  Alex really exhausts every option to avoid killing people.  His efforts are extremely dangerous and there are many intense fast-moving scenes.  And some people die.

It actually seems like Alex might be making progress. He is just about to regroup before the next problem and wham!  Alex can’t ever seem to catch a break.  The fateweaver is taking over more of his body and who knows what will happen then. I love this world, these characters, but most of all I love Alex.  There’s only one book left in this amazing series.

 

Narration:

Gildart Jackson  is excellent with this series. He’s become a favorite narrator for me.  I appreciate his voices for all the characters. I’m collecting them on audio as I can.   I loved listening and was comfortable at my normal 1.5x speed.

Listen to a clip:  HERE

 

About Gildart Jackson

With acting credits that span stage and screen, Gildart Jackson is most often recognized for his role as Gideon on Charmed. Other notable TV roles include Jackson Palmer on Providence and Simon Prentiss on General Hospital, as well as guest appearances on Stargate: Atlantis, Las Vegas, and CSI. Theater roles include Trigorin in The Seagull, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, and Adrian in Private Eyes at the Old Globe.

About Benedict Jacka

Benedict Jacka became a writer almost by accident, when at nineteen he sat in his school library and started a story in the back of an exercise book. Since then he’s studied philosophy at Cambridge, lived in China, and worked as everything from civil servant to bouncer to teacher before returning to London to take up law.

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Posted November 24, 2020 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 16 Comments


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