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Hidden (Alex Verus, 5) MP3 CD – Unabridged, September 2, 2014

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With his talent for divining the future, Alex Verus should have foreseen his friends' reactions to the revelations about his previous life. Anne Walker no longer trusts him-and has also cut all ties with the mage community after getting kicked out of the apprentice program. As a favor to Luna, Alex's own apprentice and Anne's best friend, he checks in on her only to be told to leave her alone. Then Anne gets kidnapped. The Council Keepers of the Order of the Star believe that Dark mages from her past may be involved. Working with the Keepers, Alex and Luna discover that Anne has been taken into the shadow realm of Sagash, her former Dark mage mentor, and they must find a way to rescue her. But another shadow from the past has resurfaced-Alex's former master may be back in London, and Alex has no idea what his agenda is . . .

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September 2, 2014
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1452668809
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"Gildart Jackson is really great in this. I like his performance for all characters and he really brings everyone to life, but especially Alex." --- Books of My Heart

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Benedict Jacka is half Australian, half Armenian, and grew up in London. He's worked as a teacher, bouncer, and civil servant, and spends his spare time skating and playing tabletop games. He's the author of the Alex Verus series, including Fallen, Marked, Bound, Burned, and Veiled.

With acting credits that span stage and screen, Gildart Jackson is most often recognized for his role as Gideon on Charmed. He has also been featured on Providence and General Hospital, and his theater roles include Trigorin in The Seagull, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, and Adrian in Private Eyes at the Old Globe.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tantor Audio; MP3 - Unabridged CD edition (September 2, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1452668809
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1452668802
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.4 inches

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Benedict Jacka became a writer almost by accident, when at nineteen he sat in his school library and started a story in the back of an exercise book. Since then he's studied philosophy at Cambridge, lived in China, and worked as everything from civil servant to bouncer to teacher before returning to London to take up law.

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3.5 Just Another Day as a Diviner Stars.

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2019

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Hidden is the fifth book in the Alex Verus Series. So far this series has been getting better and better with each installment and while I did enjoy Hidden quite a bit it wasn’t my favorite book of the series so far, Chosen still holds that space but it is another really good story which captured my attention from start to finish and had a few characters moving in directions I wasn’t expecting.

After the events of Chosen, Anne has moved out of Alex’s life in every way possible. She was still under a little protection by being in the apprentice program, but after an incident there, Anne is left outside the magic world and vulnerable. When she disappears, Alex and Co. team up to find out what could have happened and who could have taken her. There are apparently a lot of Dark Mages ready to do dark deeds and the list of possibly suspects isn’t really short.

I enjoy how every book of this series builds on the one before it. Alex is still dealing with some of the fallout from Chosen. While Luna seems to accept Alex for who he is and has no disillusions of what he is capable of, a few of the other young people in his life are devastated by the choices he was willing to make. I really liked seeing the varying degrees of that play out with all the characters we’ve seen before.

I did get a little bored in the sub realm Alex visited, which was just me since there are shadow monsters and the threats were real. But it felt like Alex spent a lot of time there. I did like finally learning about Anne’s past and what she has done. It really helped me understand her reactions to the events in Chosen. She and Alex are more alike than she wants to admit.

With the threat of Richard coming back into the magic scene and a new push to have Dark Mages on the Council you can tell there will be a bigger story arc that will definitely involve Alex’s old master at some point. I don’t know about the rest of you gentle readers but Richard scares the crap out of me. The guy is Lex Luther smart and seems to have a very elastic morality when it comes to getting what he wants.

I did very much like where this story ended though. I can tell that the tension for the next books is really building and Alex is going to have to find some even better tricks if he is going to make it through the changes that are definitely on the horizon.

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Gildart Jackson is really great in this. I like his performance for all characters and he really brings everyone to life, but especially Alex. His accent is perfect for this since the location of the story is mostly London. Fantastic flow and attention to inflection, I particularly enjoy when Alex speaks to the reader/listener. I listened to this at my usual 1.5x speed.

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Jason C

A little repetitive, but still a very good read

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2021

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In this one Anne gets kidnapped. This isn't the first time if you have been reading the series, but it's important. Anne and her history is a highlight of this book, so I hope you like her! How others react to Alex's actions in the last book are addressed here, but much of the book is Alex mounting a rescue of his friend. We also meet another new character that will be important throughout the rest of the series, and in spite of all of the seriousness of this book, Jacka still finds moments of funny.

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It's a good book, but it could have been great. Great narration for the audio book.

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015

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First of all - It's a good book. If you've read the previous books, then you should definitively read this one.

I like the character development and the very intense discussions ("ethical" discussions) the characters have. Not going into too much detail, I'll just say the characters seem to be processing things that in other series just get swept under the rug.

I really liked that.

The plot is OK. Not the best in the series, but interesting and develops the overall plot arch quite nicely.

The world is very well built. The magic is very interesting and well described. Well, all the magic EXCEPT our hero's magic...

And that's an issue with the series I had from the beginning. Alex's divination is really under used / under described. It's like the writer imagines Alex most of the time as having no divination at all. Sure, sometimes he explicitly uses it, but other than those instances, it's as if the writer doesn't even think about it.

And this could have been solved so easily - even a simple semantic change in the exact same text would have gone a long way to give us the "feel" of divination and added a whole lot to the books!

As a small example from a different book in the series - Alex is having a training fight with another mage, which is used to kind of explain to us (the readers) what divination is.

At some point he says something like

"I saw her attack left her head open, so as she moved in I hit her in the forehead"

This could have been said by anyone! Nothing in this sentence says "divination"!

Just changing it into

"I saw her attack will leave her head open, so as she moved in I hit her in the forehead"

Just that small change add a whole lot for the reader's "divination" sense. And that sort of thing is everywhere.

Big and small, the author just doesn't seem to "get" divination. Annoying.

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For the audio-book fans - it's still the same narrator as the previous books. And he's a darn good narrator. He really fits great with this book

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More Fun with Alex Verus

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021

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While the location wasn’t one of my favorites, the characters and plot are great. The over arching plot line continues, with future conflict of epic proportions looming in the series. Loving this well developed world and its fully realized characters. No two are alike. Not all of them even like each other, or in some cases even like Alex. Yet, they are all highly entertaining, even the cameo characters who interact briefly and disappear. Great fun. Great writing. Off to purchase the next in the series.

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Aimee Leigh Dean

You can run but you can't hide from your past

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2021

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Alex Verus learnt a long time ago to survive he would need to take actions that have long lasting consequences. His once happy circle of friends has scattered and none of them trust him as they once did. Perhaps its safer for them this way, but it doesn’t make Alex feel any better about it. He’d made those choices to survive but others didn’t see it that way. He was always considered a dark Mage by the council and no matter what, he will never be perceived as anything other than that.

He tries once again to repair his strained relationship with Anne, and she makes it clear she doesn’t want him in her life now. Reluctantly he walks away and when she vanishes without trace, he knows he is the last person to see her. Desperate to find her, he soon realises that he is on his own as those who he asked for help no longer trust him and deliberate keep things from him. He must go it alone if he wants to rescue her as time is running out.

As Alex navigates the consequences of the last Summer. He tries and fails to restore some of his important relationships and learns that once broken, that trust must be re-earnt. Really interesting character development in this novel, you have to feel for the guy given his past and his choices to try to overcome it. Anne’s past is explored as well, which finally reveals why it is she got so upset with Alex.

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Enjoyable Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2020

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I quite enjoy this series. While the magiacal urban fantasy genre isn't for eveyone I do like the masculine spin on a usually female heavy genre, each book in the series is well written and paced, with zero typos or grammatical stumples as you'd expect from a publishing house book unlike self publish works. The setting of London in the here and now gives it a familiar and tangible edge that you don't get from similar books set in the States or even Europe making it a more enjoyable read, while the character growth throughout is steady and belivable for the story arch and in the series in general. The main protagonist can be a little irksome early on in the series at times with his self flagilation quickly followed by self aggrandizing boasting but stick with it, the characters arch does change as stated previously and the author seems to grow out of this imprinting on his character as the series goes on. Overall it is a easy an enjoyable read.

Susan Stepney

Alex's reunion with the terrifying Richard is nothing like he expects

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2019

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Alex Verus, independent mage, had thought his life was coming together. He had gathered a small circle of friends and apprentices. But then they saw what he would do to survive, and some of them could no longer stay with him.

Anne Walker was one of those. Now she has been taken by a Dark Mage, and Alex must get her back, even though she wants nothing to do with him. But that might be more because of her past than his.

Alex is getting deeper into working with the Light Mages, even if they don’t all trust him. And his reunion with the terrifying Richard is nothing like he expects. He learns a lot about himself, his friends, and his enemies, and we learn more about some of the Dark Mages.

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Some interesting moral dilemmas here

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2015

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In the previous book in this series Alex Verus did some things that his companions found difficult to accept. For that reason his sort-of apprentice Anne has left his flat and is living on her own. As this book starts she has disappeared and Alex has to find her. Anne is determined not to use her very powerful magic for ill and Alex has very little magic but wants to do all he can to do what he thinks is the right thing.

This series started as a wittily told urban fantasy set in London with a hero with an unusual talent - he can see slightly into the future. We initially had lots of fun with how Alex used his talent and how he outwitted his enemies. In the past few books the author has, however, turned this story into a larger one about good and evil and, especially, how you use what you have responsibly. Anne and Alex represent two points of view but they each have quite considerable issues from the past coming back to affect them and they have each accumulated a nice collection of enemies. How they overcome these and still retain a sense of themselves makes for an interesting plot.

I recommend this series highly but I would emphasise that I think that it is important that you start at the beginning and take the journey into the more moral complexities. The author sets up an intriguing idea for the next story with the return of Alex's nemesis Richard.

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Ing

Always Magical

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2015

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I love Jacka's version of Urban Magic and the world of Alex Verus. In particular the form of precognitive magic that his protagonist has, is fascinating and provides for compelling turn-the-page enjoyment. Jacka thinks through the magic employed by his characters and clearly defines its limits and promises, thus can employ it creatively in his plots, for example the blink fox. His characters are engaging and provide excellent foils for the topic of each novel. This one seemed to me to be about whether killing was ever justified if your life was at stake. I enjoyed the unfolding of the story and the plot. There was mystery held within a clear direction of searching for a missing friend. The London urban landscape and shadow world he describes in the novel are engrossing and colourfully described without detouring into copious details.
As for his other Alex Verus novels, the read was easy to devour and the writing unfussy.

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