City Infernal

By: Edward Lee

Narrated by: Michael T. Bradley

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

When Cassie's twin sister, Lissa, commits suicide, Cassie discovers she can travel to Hell to retrieve her sister's soul. Cassie thought she knew all about the Hell of legend, but finds Hell has evolved over the millennia into a bustling city full of the damned with looming skyscrapers, crowded streets, systemized evil, and atrocity as the status quo.

Hell is a city. It stretches, literally, without end-a labyrinth of smoke and waking nightmare. Just as endlessly, sewer grates belch flame from the sulfur fires that have raged beneath the streets for millennia. Clock towers spire in every district, by public law, but their faces have no hands; time is not measured here in seconds or hours but in atrocity and despair. In the center of this morass of stone and smoke and butchery and horror stands the 666-floor Mephisto Building, where Gargoyles prowl the wind-blown ledges and from whose highest garrets the innocent are hung from gibbets and left to rot for eons. The lone occupant of the very top floor looks down upon his dominion and smiles a smile that is brighter than 1,000 suns. Here, yes, everyone is dead yet everyone lives forever. Welcome to the Mephistopolis. Welcome to the city of Hell. Welcome.

©2016 Necro Publications (P)2017 Necro Publications

Interesting As Hell

It’s difficult to review this book because it’s so bizarre. Since I read this genre quite a bit the horrific events didn’t bother me at all. The story was enjoyable and the characters were beyond description. One annoying thing was Vea’s voice. It sounded like Marge from Family Guy. The narration was good from the perspective of the words pronounced but the voices weren’t very good. If you like this genre, try it out.

good story

great book but the narrator needs alittle work but the book itself is so interesting it carries it

Hmmm

I really liked this book, it was fun.. couple of twist and entertaining. My only gripe was the narrators voice for Via. I would literally laugh out loud when he portrayed her. He didn’t do a bad job, just a strange choice of inflection lol

Love his books

Love the story, hard to really listen without laughing at the voices this guy makes. with the characters being female, a female should have read it really. but still a good story.

Engaging but not much horror, bad performance

The story was enjoyable enough for me to finish, which is only the case about half the time. There was far less horror than I expected; there's more horror in most Warhammer 40K novels. Nevertheless, the concept was fairly original and engaging, though some details regarding the concept are a bit contrived or preposterous.

This Michael Bradley mook can NOT do a female voice that isn't grating, and the voice of one of the male protagonists - the reformed fallen angel - sounds like a special ed Boris Karloff. That character voice was the most annoying I've ever heard on Audible.

Horrible Naration

Fantastic story, needs a new narrator as all his voices sound way too similar. R.C. Bray would slay this.

Better than Clive Barker

This reminded me a little of The Scarlet Gospels, but I enjoyed it much more. The performance was a little shaky; some lousy voices, blips in room tone, etc., but the story made up for it. Really good!

A fun and twisted ride through hell

- Josh here

I waited quite a while for this book to be put out in audiobook format. This began as I was on a hell kick after listening to "A short stay in hell", "Lost Gods", and "Hell's Super". I waited a bit and finally found through the Edward Lee Fan Page Facebook group that this book had been released in audiobook format.

I am glad I waited and gave this a listen. What a gory and interesting tale of how hell operates. Right from the opening chapter, this book drew me in. I was interested to see how Hell would play a role in the story after the first few chapters passed by and was pleasantly surprised at the transition from the flesh world through the dead pass. I thoroughly each of the characters to include Via, Xeke, and Hush.

Mr. Lee definitely has a fan and I hope that book three becomes available again through Audible as I only see book two available currently. Mike Bradley did a wonderful job with the narration and really brought to life the gory and disturbing aspects of this story.

meh...somewhat goofy description of hell

some dark depictions of hell. most was comical. narrator's female voice was too annoying. lillith, the subbuccus, was written well but she was a minor character.

Interesting

The story itself is entertaining enough even if EL severely over does stereotypes. Almost disgustingly so. And the narrator doesn’t help that by adding over the top voices to the characters it’s almost hard to listen to his voice sometimes. Cassie the main character is a bit of a ditz and it’s annoying some of the obvious things that need to be explained.

However I think the story itself is good, with a few twists I was pleasantly surprised by. It leaves off with a pretty good cliffhanger for the next book and I look forward to listening to that one as well. I just hope it’s read by someone else.