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  • Forging Hephaestus

  • Villains' Code Series, Book 1
  • By: Drew Hayes
  • Narrated by: Amy Landon
  • Length: 26 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (461 ratings)
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Forging Hephaestus

By: Drew Hayes
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Summary

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. 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.

Apprenticed 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. The education of a villain is not an easy one, and Tori will have to learn quickly if she wants to survive. 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.

Most dangerous of all, though, are those who loathe the guild's very existence. 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. Even the lowly apprentices.

©2016 Andrew Hayes (P)2017 Tantor

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Yet another masterpiece

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Can’t recommend it high enough pace throughout and a great story line

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Excellent! Enjoyed much more than expected!

Great listen, very interesting to hear from a villains' viewpoint. Loved the humor twined through.

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An awesome Supervillain book

A great Supervillain book showing nicely the trials without being ridiculous. the sorry flows well and the characters feel believable with no one being excessive 2d. Credit to the Narrator for a brilliant performance that pulls you into the book.

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If powereds was avengers then this is daredevil :)

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after listening to drew hays other books (which where quite good) i was expecting the modula and episodic writing from his web series powereds, but i was happily surprised. this felt a lot more cohesive than his other works.

the story is excellent the characters relatable and the powers unique and interesting. for me it hits the perfect mix of light heartedness and large epic superheroes/villains both with dark motives.

the performances was well done and very immersive and i hope if the series is continued that Amy Landon will continue to narrate.

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A brilliant story, good narration.

Brilliant book, some of the voices sound the same and the men's voices especially sounded old even when they weren't old characters necessarily, but it was a brilliant story and Amy Landon did do a good job at narrating it despite those two small little issues. It really is worth a read/listen. I can't wait for the second installment, keep up the amazing work!

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Utterly utterly Awesome!

Been ages since I was gutted to reach the end of a book but I was unbelievably gutted to each the end of this

What a great listen, characters were well rounded and compelling, the story was a rollercoaster ride and the narration was perfect

Come on Drew get your Pen out and get the sequel out NOW!!!!!

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You are simply missing out if you don't listen to this.

The start of what I hope will be a long running story. A origin story of a morally flexible but loveable lead, building through the trials finding their feet to a most entertaining end with great hope for more to come.

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A nice look at superheroes and supervillains

an enjoyable story from start to finish. I look forward to the next book when it comes out.

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Brilliant

I enjoyed the super powered series by the same. author this is set in a similar but different universe and is even better. Great characters and we'll paced story.

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simple pleasures

Different take on the world of supers. entertaining way to cover a lot of driving miles.

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