While I found his work on the Hexed series to be outstanding, I was detracted by the certain small parts of the story line which were just plain irritating. Have you listened to any of Luke Daniels’s other performances before? How does this one compare? What was one of the most memorable moments of Heart of Evil? If you could sum up Heart of Evil in three words, what would they be? Apparently this will the narrator for the books in the series now and I’m not sure how I feel about that.Ī Modern Day Ghost Story with Civil War Ghosts! There was a change in narrators from the first book as well which I found disappointing as I couldn’t quite recognize the characters I loved in the first book. I hope the author can find her rhythm again in the next one. I loved his smooth, laid back calm in the first book and in this one none of that was present. It’s like he switched bodies with Jackson. I guess my biggest disappointment in this book though is the complete change in Jake’s personality. She sadly enough has more chemistry with Cliff “her semi-cousin” than she did with Jake. She wasn’t that likable and I didn’t feel any chemistry with Jake. I spent a lot of time calling her an idiot throughout the book. She is tough and lashes out when she shouldn’t and then spends the rest of the book making stupid decisions to put herself and others in danger. There wasn’t the great chemistry between the team members that we enjoyed in the first book. This was Jake and Ashleigh’s story and the rest of the team played third fiddle.

The author lost the entire team dynamic she had created in the first one. It was like the author decided she didn’t have enough tropes/stereotypes in the first that she had to throw them all in this one. All the small things in the first book I loved got so exaggerated in this one that it became just too much and overwhelmed the story.

Phantom Evil by Heather Graham