Enemy, K. Eason
Enemy, K. Eason
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Enemy

Author: K. Eason

Narrator: Faye Adele

Unabridged: 12 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/17/2023


Synopsis

In an action-packed fantasy in the vein of Robin Hobb and N. K. Jemisin, two outcasts will become allies for the fight of their lives.

Snow is many things. A half-blood assassin who's quick with a blade. A conjuror with the power to manipulate shadows. A sharp-witted smuggler who looks after herself first and no one second. What she has never been is trusting, so when a northern stranger helps her escape two Republic soldiers, she's more than a little suspicious.

Joining forces with someone as deadly as Snow isn't easy for an outcast like Veiko, who hears the dead, whether he wants to or not. But as a clanless outlaw, he doesn't have many options. When the two of them uncover a conspiracy that could tear the land apart, they form an unlikely partnership. But as they grow closer, their enemies grow stronger, and Snow will need to make a choice: sacrifice her partner . . . or damn the Republic to war.

About K. Eason

K. Eason is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, where she and her composition students tackle important topics such as the zombie apocalypse, the humanity of cyborgs, and whether or not Beowulf is a good guy. Her publications include the On the Bones of Gods fantasy series, and she has had short fiction published in Cabinet-des-Fees, Jabberwocky 4, Crossed Genres, and Kaleidotrope.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on June 06, 2016

I went back and forth on one or two stars for this book, and settled on two. Eason's novel has a phenomenal story inside it, but it's buried under hackneyed writing tricks and a teenager's need for attention. There were moments when I was reading that I felt this was one of the best books I've read......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on April 27, 2016

This is the real stuff- characters driven by interior lives that somehow manage to spring from something more than gonads and the weighty concerns of permanently-teenaged angst; a fully-realized world in which those characters move, and a compelling ambivalence about binary notions like "right vs. w......more

Goodreads review by Wench on May 08, 2016

Well, shit. I think this is the first genuinely *good* book I've gotten via Kindle First. Also most of the main characters are Black. And women. Whaaaaaaat. Content notes: violence, human sacrifice, rape (not narrated; we find out after the fact), animal torture as back story, racism, sexism......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 18, 2016

This is the best debut fantasy I've read since...since I don't even know when. A few years, at least. It's got the rich world building of Kameron Hurley crossed with something grittier -- like maybe a Mark Lawrence. It's written in a big, complex world with competing cultures and a great backstory,......more

Goodreads review by CZero on July 19, 2016

I'm always on the hunt for breakout first novels and this was a fantastic start! Very rarely do I think of the words intelligent, complex and readable all coming together in a first novel. The style took a few pages to get into, but each character has a unique cultural voice. Speaking of cultures, i......more