Dead Boys
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Narrated by:
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Gabriel Squailia
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By:
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Gabriel Squailia
About this listen
A decade dead, Jacob Campbell is a preservationist, providing a kind of taxidermy to keep his clients looking lifelike for as long as the forces of entropy will allow. But in the Land of the Dead, where the currency is time itself and there is little for corpses to do but drink, thieve, and gamble eternity away, Jacob abandons his home and his fortune for an opportunity to meet the man who cheated the rules of life and death entirely.
According to legend, the Living Man is the only adventurer to ever cross into the underworld without dying first. It's rumored he met his end somewhere in the labyrinth of pubs beneath Dead City's streets, disappearing without a trace. Now Jacob's vow to find the Living Man and follow him back to the land of the living sends him on a perilous journey through an underworld where the only certainty is decay.
Accompanying him are the boy Remington, an innocent with mysterious powers over the bones of the dead, and the hanged man Leopold l'Eclair, a flamboyant rogue whose criminal ambitions spark the undesired attention of the shadowy ruler known as the Magnate.
An ambitious debut that mingles the fantastic with the philosophical, Dead Boys twists the well-worn epic quest into a compelling, one-of-a-kind work of weird fiction that transcends genre, recalling the novels of China Miéville and Neil Gaiman.
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- Charnstar
- 05-10-2024
Such big ideas that don't go anywhere
Maybe that was the point? I might be the idiot here, always willing to admit that. The prose was well written and the world was so well built, but the plot itself felt like it went nowhere. It started with such a clear goal, but each step they got closer to their goal, I lost more and more interest, because it seemed like a pointless goal. And even then, the ending is just not satisfying. I loved the world building though, I want more stories in this world, just not... this one?
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