I was very pleased with this listen and am interested in listening to the next book in the series. The voices were distinguishable and clean, and not overacted. There are some comments in other reviews about the narrator's performance, but I honestly did not notice any of the negative points about the narration.

After listening to this author's writing in different series now, I am really impressed and delighted by his characters. Their personalities were great they were colorful, and left just enough to the imagination for me to really turn them into believable characters.The main hero suffers ever so slightly from a lack of strong motivation, but beyond that is fun to root for and see what she does next. My favorite aspect of the book, though, were the characters. The story was nuanced and the author was decently skillful at leaving the sources and function of the various powers up to the reader's imagination while still establishing that there were limits. As the ratings imply, I am really glad I listened to this book. I did enjoy one of the authors' other series though, and thought the length of the book made for a decent value, so I went for Forging Hephaestus. I usually find superhero universes really hard to suspend disbelief in, and am thus not a big seeker of of superhero fiction. Even the lowly apprentices.Ī Nice Surprise with some Really Fun Characters Old grudges mean some are willing to go to any length to see the guild turned to ash, along with each one of its members. Most dangerous of all, though, are those who loathe the guild's very existence. On top of the peril she faces from her own teacher, there are also the capes and fellow apprentices to worry about, to say nothing of having to keep up a civilian cover.

The education of a villain is not an easy one, and Tori will have to learn quickly if she wants to survive. But when she's captured trying to rob a vault that belongs to a secret guild of villains, she's offered a hard choice: prove she has what it takes to join them or be eliminated.Īpprenticed to one of the world's most powerful (and supposedly dead) villains, she is thrust into a strange world where the lines that divide superheroes and criminals are more complex than they seem. Gifted with meta-human powers in a world full of capes and villains, Tori Rivas kept away from the limelight, preferring to work as a thief in the shadows.

Forging Hephaestus by Drew Hayes