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Master of the Forest

By: Artyom Dereschuk
Narrated by: Bruce Mann
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At the edge of the world, unknown and unseen, he endures and survives even in our digital era....

A young man leaves his backdoor Russian town and heads to Moscow, never to be poor again. With each day, he grows more and more desperate, until he meets an old geologist with an intriguing and surprisingly profitable offer: to join him on his trip to the depths of Siberia, the largest forest on the planet, and become a "black digger" - one of those who find and excavate mammoth tusks with the purpose of selling them as ivory to the highest bidder.

With nothing much to lose, our hero agrees, venturing to the edge of the Earth, beyond the borders of civilization and into the untouched wilderness. There, thousands of miles from home, in a race against the clock before the cold seals the ground, he has to face nature, other diggers, his inner demons, and, most importantly, the enigmatic "Master of the Forest" - a prehistoric creature and the origin of all local legends, who ferociously protects his domain.

©2018 Artyom Dereschuk (P)2019 Tantor Horror Scary Horror Fiction

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Great build-up, loveable characters

Loved the grim tone of the novel throughout, and there's a wonderfully slow build-up introducing the main character before the action begins. The violence and gore is extremely visceral, and some descriptions remain with me still.

The narration is fine, only brought down by the lack of vocal range of the part of the narrator. Apart from Nikolai Igorovich and the main character all the other characters sound the same. The translation also seems well-done, apart from a few eyebrow-raising parts here and there.

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