Driftwood, Marie Brennan
Driftwood, Marie Brennan
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Driftwood

Author: Marie Brennan

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/14/2020


Synopsis

In this first novel set in award-winning author Marie Brennan's incomparable Driftwood fantasy universe, enter a post-apocalyptic realm where the apocalypse has not ended, where fragments of worlds cohere into shifting myths. Yet even as everything fades, Drifters gather to tell conflicting legends of Last, the guide—the one man who seemed immortal, but may have been a fraud.

Who is Last?

Fame is rare in Driftwood—it's hard to get famous if you don't stick around long enough for people to know you. But many know the guide, Last, a one-blooded survivor who has seen his world end many lifetimes ago. For Driftwood is a strange place of slow apocalypses, where continents eventually crumble into mere neighborhoods, pulled inexorably towards the center in the Crush. Cultures clash, countries fall, and everything eventually disintegrates.

Within the Shreds, a rumor goes around that Last has died. Drifters come together to commemorate him. But who really was Last? Lying liar, or heroic savior? A mercenary, a charlatan, a legend? A man, an immortal—perhaps even a god?

About Marie Brennan

Marie Brennan habitually pillages her background in anthropology, archaeology, and folklore for fictional purposes. She is the author of the Onyx Court series, the Doppelganger duology of Warrior and Witch, and the urban fantasy Lies and Prophecy, as well as more than thirty short stories. The first book in the Lady Trent Memoirs series, A Natural History of Dragons, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the entire series has been nominated for a Hugo.


Reviews

Driftwood Q: “That’s Driftwood. In the end, every person, every street, every world will fade and crumble and die.” … Maybe Driftwood is an agreement among the gods, a final mercy, giving their worlds a chance to come to terms with death before it finishes happening. (c) Q: “Save my world,” Alsanit s......more

Driftwood is a conglomerate world composed of the last bits of dying worlds: worlds ripped apart by sandstorms, burnt beyond recognition, decimated by plagues. All these fragments come to butt up against each other like uneasy neighbors, and together they drift inexorably inward - losing land, peopl......more

Goodreads review by Mike

*Driftwood* is probably the most creative thing I’ve read since *The Library at Mount Char*. It was just … staggeringly imaginative. This is not a large book. I started reading it shortly before going to bed, intending to read only the first chapter or so and get a feel for my new book. Three hours l......more