What did you like best about Dead of Night? What did you like least?
Wow. This world is vast in creatures and beings and magic. There is a system to the Houses that ruled in the magical ways. And lots of ghosts, though I did get confused as to who are ghosts and not, and what ghost meant here. I’m leaving the book believing ghost isn’t exactly what we think of with ghost. I think Ghost is a term used for people who are affiliated with magic, touched by it some how or for those that are hired to do theft jobs along with assassinations.

The reason for magic being present in the world is interesting and feels well thought out. We get the descriptions are given through the book.

I think the jury is still out on this book and world. I’m just don’t feel I understand what’s happening in the world with ghosts and magic completely yet. We get some of the rules, but I’m not sure I understand it all yet. There is much here to see and learn, and with Conor being a hired gun or thief, there is great potential for us to see more of this powerful world.

In the end, I’m curious about this dark, magical world created.

If you’ve listened to books by M.R. Forbes before, how does this one compare?
I’ve listened to his first fantasy book and the narrator is the same person here. I enjoy the voices he brings to the story and live that becomes present.
Which character – as performed by Jeff Hays – was your favorite?
I do enjoy the vast cast of voices Jeff performs in his narrations. That’s the first thing that drew me to this novel, the second was it sounded like something I would read and enjoy. Jeff has not let me down with his talented voice. Not only do we get different voices but we get the muffled sounds of one talking without a jaw (you have to listen to understand) along with sounding like one is on the phone when doing so. Jeff breaths life into all the characters in a fourth dimension we don’t always get in books, through voice and emotions.
Do you think Dead of Night needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
We get the complete story here but there are small openings in the world that could bring us to the series and to learn much much more about Conor and some answers he’s seeking.
Any additional comments?
Conor is motivated by money, so he’ll survive and send money to those he care(d) about. But he does have his own set of rules and morels too. Will he turn on his current employer to save his own neck? Or does he have something else up his baggy sleeves? You’ll have to read to see what he’ll do when put on the spot. Conor is an interesting character as he’s a necromancer, and to be one you have to have one foot in the grave, so to speak. Conor is dying. That’s when the necromancer ability shines along with the use of the drugs he needs to hold off the cancer from finishing it’s work. He could always feel the pulse of the fields that brought magic back to the world, but that was all until he started the test drugs for his cancer.