The City That Would Eat the World
More Gods Than Stars, Book 1
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
The City That Would Eat the World
Buy Now for $33.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Robin Miles
-
By:
-
John Bierce
About this listen
Thea is a washed-up mimic exterminator who expected more out of life, not some hero from stories. Aven is an impulsive wandering adventurer whose personal goddess is constantly getting her into trouble. Neither of them has the slightest interest in getting involved in world-shaking historical events.
History doesn't care what they want, unfortunately. It's fallen right into their laps in the shape of a god-slaying weapon from a fallen civilization. Thrown together out of chance, Thea and Aven will have to learn to work together if they want to survive their pursuers.
Because if they fail, and the weapon falls into the wrong hands? The results won't be pretty. No one's going to be using it on some random street corner goddess, teakettle god, or any of the other countless teeming millions of divinities on Ishveos.
No, there's one target that sits above all others.
Cambrias, whose watch never ends. Cambrias, whose power has given rise to Cambrias' Wall, the greatest city in the known multiverse—a city that has already covered much of a continent and is strip-mining entire mountain ranges for space and building material. A city that threatens to spread across the entire surface of Ishveos.
And there's no shortage of folks willing to kill Thea and Aven in order to stop the Wall, no matter the consequences.
Contains a special note from the author.
©2024 John Bierce (P)2025 Podium AudioWhat listeners say about The City That Would Eat the World
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 05-03-2025
A fun read
A fun story
the characters are interesting and the story explores a bunch of different things while they adventure.
the world system is refreshing, the gods and interplanetry/relm system is fun and interesting to explore.
I like that the author has placed them on a moon (since moons are just satelite planets)
The biggest problem for me was the constant yo-yoing between the current story and the past. Like it was a short engaging storytelling in the present then it would break back to the past to "fill in the knowledge from that character you are missing" but instead of being a couple of times it was constant. the whole first half of the book it was almost every secound chapter was a flashback. It was over used and ended up taking away from the story since the moment anything came up that hadnt been talked about yet it was throw you back to the past to tell you about it and/or over explain the situation. This really took away from any mystery the characters had, I feel like it could have been handled better. even if just having them meet then going back to have all the background chapters filled at once before continueing the story since this would be less emersion breaking. (the actual writing wand story was good but the constant flip flopping from present to past was really tedious).
there is some really cool world building.
I would love to read more from this universe and these characters ☆
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!