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City of Last Chances

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution.

There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse.

What will be the spark that lights the conflagration?

Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood–that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.

Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places.

Ilmar, City of Long Shadows.

City of Bad Decisions.

City of Last Chances.

©2022 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2022 Head of Zeus Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Crime Paranormal
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Found this rather impenetrable - for some reason I just couldn't get into it. Not something I've had a problem with before with Tchaikovsky. I liked the modular structure of each chapter and great narration, but just didn't click with the overall story flow.

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aside from the narrator saying donjon 3429 times, fantastic! I didn't understand a lot of it but had fun!

Immersive!

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Narrated well and while at times slow going I wanted to know what will happen next, definitely considering the next book to listen to.

Weird but interesting storyline

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Richly characterised and amazing locations. Honestly had no idea what was happening; rambling plot that I could not follow. Fantastic narrator. It was like it was the 7th in a series. So much world building but I couldn't hold it all together. I still liked it.

No idea what was going on

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I loved this violent tale, partticularly the question of what happens to noble causes and the multitude of big and little gods whom nobody believes in anymore. Very entertaining.

An entertaining, if violent, portrait of abandoned and irrelevant gods.

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