We Burn Our Dead

De: Ted Laughton

Narrado por: Jake Urry

On a rain-lashed cliff above a black and restless sea, a band of killers pauses between battles. By morning, one of them is dead.

They are a mercenary brotherhood bound by bloodshed and the iron will of their leader, Sturmund. Among them stands a woman hardened by the same bitter wars. They have all walked the warrior’s path too long to abandon it.

Until the forest.
Until the Beast.

In the deep woods beyond their camp moves something vast and patient—an ancient horror bound to its killing ground and driven mad by the passing years. It does not forgive trespass.

What begins as pursuit becomes reckoning. With each clash, more than flesh is torn away—conviction frays, pride splinters, and the discipline holding the company together begins to rot.

As grief twists into obsession, the line between warrior and monster blurs.
The forest will test what their violence is worth.

We Burn Our Dead is an unflinching, mythic dark fantasy about violent legacy, fading legend, and the terrible beauty of standing your ground in a merciless world.

©2025 Ted Laughton (P)2025 Ted Laughton

We Burn Our Dead

We Burn Our Dead by Ted Laughton is a wonderful adventure fantasy. Jake Urry did a wonderful job with the narration. The story is entertaining, interesting, engaging, enjoyable, heartfelt, well written, wonderful characters development, and more. I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review. highly recommended

I haven’t come across writing like this in a long time.

The authors writing style is absolutely beautiful. I want to start with that because for me, the way an author writes is just as important as the story itself. There some authors that just stand out, and even under a different pen name, you know it’s them. That is the type of unique writing style Ted Laughton has.

With that said and out of the way, let’s get to the review.

You will find yourself absolutely immersed in this book. He is descriptive and detailed. Not overly so to the point where his descriptions are drawn out, but just enough where you can easily visualize it all without losing interest.

The characters are intriguing, the plot is fantastic and it is written at just the right pace.

Only thing I didn’t care for was the narrator.