Would you be willing to try another book from M. R. Forbes? Why or why not?
Yes I have enjoyed the two books I have read from this author and I will continue this series after taking a break to listen to some other books. I find Forbes to be a good author who writes well rounded characters, although this book I found lagged a bit because he spent more time discussing the merits of good vs. evil and what evil and good meant.
Which character – as performed by Jeff Hays – was your favorite?
I still enjoy the main character Landon but I quite liked the way Jeff brought the character Ulnix to life. Jeff seemed to really imbue a lot of personality into the words that the author had written and to me Jeff seemed to relish portraying a character that was “evil” in the first book and for lack of a better term became more “balanced.”
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
There were a few places that I became extremely frustrated with the main characters actions. A few places I wanted to say, “Take your head out of your rear and pay attention Landon.”I felt very frustrated with some of the obvious points that the main character missed and a few times in the book I actually was somewhat bored waiting for a character to emerge that had been foreshadowed heavily.

M.R. Forbes was still able to provide some very interesting twists to the story, but I definately found the foreshadowing a bit too much at times. It might also be because I had just finished reading the previous book the day before.

Any additional comments?
I didn’t think the book was as strongly written as the first book, and I found the main character to be somewhat dense in places. The author delved a bit to esoterically into the battle between good and evil and what makes someone good or evil, but overall I enjoyed the book.

I found Jeff’s performance of the book to be very good, although I felt it wasn’t quite as spot on as the first. I did notice some small nit picky things such as the beginnings of some of the chapters the voice of Landon seemed to start out a little deeper but within a sentence it was back to the normal pitch.

I still very much enjoyed Jeff’s ability to perform both the male and female voices and all the accents with skill and he did a great job imbuing them with life and matching each voice to the characters personality. I especially enjoyed the way he built on the character Ulnix and also portrayed the character Lilacs.