House of Open Wounds

De: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrado por: David Thorpe

Duración: 23 h y 1 m

Resumen del Editor

From the BSFA Award-Winning Author of City Of Last Chances

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the frontline.

Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a particularity unorthodox medical unit.

Led by 'the Butcher', an ogre of a man who's a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical tincture, the unit's motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies are no strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs is an unspeakable trade: elbow-deep in gore they have a first-hand view of the suffering caused by flesh-rending monsters, arcane magical weaponry and embittered enemy soldiers.

Entrusted—for now—with saving lives deemed otherwise un-saveable, the field hospital's crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and Yansic's thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being disbanded, arrested or worse.

Beset by enemies within and without, the last thing anyone needs is a miracle.

©2023 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2023 Head of Zeus

Great climax

everything came together in such a satisfying way, the world building is so dense and intriguing. Similar humor and writing style to Terry Pratchett, would read again. Also loved the Narrator, great voices and switching accents

Hold on and listen up

Wow, what an epic series!! bounces around a bit with a , you really must be paying attention to witness the one line that changes everything and doesn't get referenced again. classic.

Fav parts or the 8-9 conversations with God. absoluty brilliant! Same masterstroke in previous book.

fantastic

really a great yarn. better than the first. amazing performance. very fun world. word. word word word.

Fun small-world character study!

I enjoyed this book more than City of Ruin.
Whereas that book seemed more focused on political events and their primary actors, this book focuses more on the lives of colorful individual characters who have formed a found family of misfits as they try to survive, surrounded & compelled by a maelstrom of forces out of their control.

The narration is excellent.

Great story and great delivery!

The author develops interesting and nuanced characters who are revealed, layer by layer, throughout the book, with many entertaining plot twists that come together in an ultimately fairly complete resolution. And the narrator did a wonderful job of bringing the story and the characters to life, in all their many complexities.

Could almost be a standalone, but works well any way you slice it

This was wonderful! Tchaikovsky’s originality never ceases to make me smile.

On the performance side, David Thorpe is a master - (Tchaikovsky’s audiobooks use the best voice actors, and so often their voices I’ve never heard before which in itself is simply miles of awesome:) easily transitioning between dozens of characters and english dialects, often hilarious (only where intended) - just really great voice work: Thorpe clearly loves his work, which makes it all the more fun to listen to!

Tchaikovsky jumps back and forth between sci-fi and fantasy with incredible ease. I’m rarely a fan of fantasy to the same degree as science fiction, (and his sci-fi, in my humble opinion is really up there with the best of Vernor Vinge) and yet the tools of character and realm conception that Tchaikovsky is able to exercise actually show me that fantasy has enormous potential for original concept development, moving far outside of the beyond-tired conventions of high fantasy, into ever-fun and surprising turf.

Evocative of some of the stage-sets of Gene Wolf’s “Science Fantasy” epics, but with none of the utter monotony of pace/overall arc, nor the two-dimensional adolescent chauvinism of character design; maybe a bit more like a super cool and strange 2nd cousin to China Miéville’s Bas-Lag books.

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Fun Story with Excellent Narration

I enjoyed the first book but this one was a knockout. The first book was very heavy on the word building and it pays off in book 2 which focuses on the characters. If you enjoy stories revolving around found family, fantasy, and humor then you'd like this book.

Not what I expected

I thoroughly enjoyed this audio book. The story was interesting and the voice performance was fantastic. I would recommend this to anyone who appreciates dark comedy.

This one is fun

What will Yasnic do after being sentenced to be in the Pal army?

he'll get into trouble, with the army and with God. But with some help and the right circumstances it might all just work out.

Crazed battle continues as two armies maintain a stalemate over a territory both have claims to. New means and methods are being thought up in how to break the stalemate. A quirky field hospital with a few priests, a mighty alchemist and some fun orderlys do their best to wade through the misery and patch up who they can. Their collective superior officer happens to be a necromancer with a chance at advancement if they are willing to do the dirty work, and not get caught up in the mess of the hospital.

A truly fun time. A lot of fun getting to know the different orphaned gods and watch them flex what little ability they had left. There seems to be the possiblity for more which I greatly would enjoy.

The nailing down of Gods exact philosophy was a fun time to listen to. Once again David Thorpe does a wonderful job bringing the varied cast to life. His portrayal or God and Yasnics bickering were continual spots of comedy timed perfectly. He also was able to inject some awesome brutality into the Butcher and put Banders at ease and aloof through her backroom deals.

Super fun and entertaining

Loved seeing how he was going to manipulate the rules of this universe to a fun story. Always makes you root for the small guy. I enjoyed it this story more than the first because it explained more of how magic works on the world.