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Our Chaotic Goose Faranae (otherwise known as our Virtual Manager) presents a review of Jordan L. Hawk\u2019s The Forgotten Dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Nigel Taylor is mostly a typical academic, except his specialty is parapsychology despite refusing to work with anyone claiming to be psychic. Yes, he\u2019s got some hangups. Unfortunately, like all academics, the pursuit of funding dictates his choices and he ends up working with Oscar Fox and his team of amateur ghost hunters. They both have secrets and things they\u2019d rather leave in the past, and now they\u2019ve added their attraction to each other to the list of things they aren\u2019t admitting to anyone.

Unlike most of Hawk\u2019s other books, horror is the main plot here, and the romantic development is just a little neglected. That\u2019s a small flaw in an otherwise great book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two genres are diametrically opposed so this wasn\u2019t an easy fusion. How do you convince the reader everyone is in danger when you know you\u2019re getting a happy ending?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawk played my imagination like a violin. He gave me just enough hints to imagine the absolute worst I could, and didn\u2019t reveal the truth until it was necessary for achieving the romance side of the equation. I\u2019ve seen the basic premise of this novel a dozen times, and not once was I actually reminded of any of them, even one that also had a trans character working with amateur ghost hunters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is going to be at least one sequel, which I hope will expand on the secondary characters. This is not to say these characters were shallow, but rather that I had enough to get a sense of them, but not enough to really think about them wholly apart from the two protagonists. There\u2019s also a great deal more to explore about Oscar and Nigel. We\u2019ve seen them at both their best and their worst, and I\u2019d really like to see them at their every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Chaotic Goose Faranae (otherwise known as our Virtual Manager) presents a review of Jordan L. Hawk\u2019s The Forgotten Dead. Dr. Nigel Taylor is mostly a typical academic, except his specialty is parapsychology despite refusing to work with anyone claiming to be psychic. Yes, he\u2019s got some hangups. 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