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Last year I loved City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky — Runalong The Shelves an intricate fanatsy novel exploring one amazing city on the cusp of revolution. We got to explore every part of a society from top to bottom the oppressors and the oppressed. I’ now pleased that Ad Astra have confirmed that we now get a new book in the same world coming out 7/12/23 - House of Open Wounds and they’ve kindly allowed me to share the cover! As with last year’s cover this is a beauty!

But to further tempt you here are some more details

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. Their's 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.

Hopefully that should be enough and if you’d like to pre-order click House of Open Wounds (geni.us) to see where you can pick this up! now look at that cover!