{"id":24292,"date":"2025-02-27T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24292"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:50:15","slug":"deadly-assessments-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24292","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Assessments, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FooekV\"><em>Deadly Assessments<\/em><\/a>, Audiobook (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Hayes_Drew.php\">Drew Hayes<\/a> narrated by Kirby Heyborne (Fred The Vampire #5)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FooekV\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deadly-Assessments.jpg?resize=202%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Deadly Assessments\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deadly-Assessments.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deadly-Assessments.jpg?w=336&amp;ssl=1 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This seems as apt a moment as any for a brief digression, wherein I explain that my employee was neither insane nor joking, as we were both proud Undead Americans\u2014specifically, vampires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDid the vampire give you a name?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe called herself Deborah,\u201d I said. \u201cSo she can\u2019t be too old, at least. That seems like a fairly modern name.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not. There were Deborahs in the Bible, Fredrick.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Truthfully, I was used to working with little information during a crisis, but the more time I spent with Deborah, the more I realized that such really shouldn\u2019t be the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Allowing yourself to be tied up by all the potential ways things could go wrong only resulted in making no progress in any direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Fredrick Frankford Fletcher, Krystal Jenkins, Neil, Albert, Bubba Emerson, Amy Wells, Lillian, Arch Davenport, Charlotte Manor, Asha Patel, Deborah the Prudence of the Blood Council, Richard Alderson, Daiyu Lau, Kevin Crawford, Megan Bradley, June Windbrook, Ernest, Hellebore, Gideon, Sebastian Selkirk<\/p>\n<p>Cover design by Ashley Ruggirello<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Tantor Audio<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly Assessments, Audiobook (2018) Drew Hayes narrated by Kirby Heyborne (Fred The Vampire #5) This seems as apt a moment as any for a brief digression, wherein I explain that my employee was neither insane nor joking, as we were both proud Undead Americans\u2014specifically, vampires. \u201cDid the vampire give you a name?\u201d \u201cShe called herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,37,2,204,148,41,34],"tags":[259,260,817,313],"class_list":["post-24292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-audio-book","category-fantasy","category-good","category-queer","category-reread","category-urban-fantasy","tag-drew-hayes","tag-fred-the-vampire-accountant","tag-kirby-heyborne","tag-vampires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6jO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24314,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24314","url_meta":{"origin":24292,"position":0},"title":"The Fangs of Freelance, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"February 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Fangs of Freelance, Audiobook (2017) Drew Hayes narrated by Kirby Heyborne (Fred The Vampire #4) Characters: Fredrick Frankford Fletcher, Krystal Jenkins, Neil, Albert, Bubba Emerson, Amy Wells, Richard Alderson, Gideon, Lillian, Arch Davenport, Charlotte Manor, Sally Alderson, September Windbrook, Roderick Knox, Josiah Fenmoore, Lonnie, Grand Mage Cyndi Gussoff, Quinn\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Fangs of Freelance","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The-Fangs-of-Freelance.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24297,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24297","url_meta":{"origin":24292,"position":1},"title":"Undeading Bells, Audiobook","author":"Michelle","date":"March 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Undeading Bells (2019) Drew Hayes narrated by Kirby Heyborne (Fred the Vampire Accountant #6) \"You\u2019ve got a whole day to be anxious, so don\u2019t use it all up tonight. 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