Nightwatch on the Hinterlands

De: K. Eason

Narrado por: Nicole Poole

Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, this new sci-fi mystery follows an unlikely duo that must discover the motive behind an unusual murder.

The templar: When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don't kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it.

The spy: Officially, Gaer is an ambassador from the vakari. Unofficially, he's also a spy, sending information back to his government, unfiltered by diplomatic channels. Unlike Iari, Gaer isn't so sure the riev's behavior is just a malfunction, since the riev were created using an unstable mixture of alchemy and arithmancy.

As Gaer and Iari search for the truth, they discover that the murderous riev is just a weapon in the hands of a wielder with wider ambitions than homicide - including releasing horrors not seen since the war and that make a rampaging riev seem insignificant....

©2021 K. Eason (P)2022 Tantor

Great Narration

It is a thinking person’s story. Doesn’t spoon feed you. The world feels loved in and you’re given the pieces that make it whole a bit at a time but organically. The past that is hinted at makes you want to read about all the events before this story. This story makes you want to know what happens next. Overall a good read.

I enjoyed this all of the way through

A bit shorter than most of my listens, but it was well written, the performance was solid, and it moves right along.