Adrian Tchaikovsky House of Open Wounds : Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best

Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovskys awardwinning fantasy novel City of Last ChancesCitybycity, kingdombykingdom, 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 front line. Which is where Yasnic, onetime 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 whos a dab hand with a bonesaw and an alchemical tincture, the units motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies are no strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs is an unspeakable trade elbowdeep in gore they have a firsthand view of the suffering caused by fleshrending monsters, arcane magical weaponry and embittered enemy soldiers. Entrusted for now with saving lives deemed otherwise unsaveable, the field hospitals crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and Yasnics 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 miracleReviews for City of Last... | Adrian Tchaikovsky House of Open Wounds : Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best