The Ace of Skulls, Chris Wooding
The Ace of Skulls, Chris Wooding
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The Ace of Skulls

Author: Chris Wooding

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Unabridged: 19 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 01/30/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Urban, Epic


Synopsis

All good things come to an end. And this is it: the last stand of the Ketty Jay and her intrepid crew.

They've been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off. They've stolen priceless treasures, destroyed a 10,000-year-old Azryx city and sort-of-accidentally blew up the son of the Archduke. Now they've gone and started a civil war. This time, they're really in trouble.

As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Frey is doing his best to keep his crew out of it. He's got his mind on other things, not least the fate of Trinica Dracken. But wars have a way of dragging people in, and sooner or later they're going to have to pick a side. It's a choice they'll be staking their lives on.

Cities fall and daemons rise. Old secrets are uncovered and new threats revealed.

When the smoke clears, who will be left standing?

About Chris Wooding

Chris Wooding is a full time, award-winning novelist, a YA novelist, and a professional script writer for film and TV. He has travelled extensively, plays bass and guitar (and has recorded several albums) and his novels have been published all over the world. He has penned the Braided Path trilogy, a standalone novel (The Fade) and the Tales of the Ketty Jay series for Gollancz, all of which were critical and commercial successes. Chris Wooding lives in Kent, and you can learn more at www.chriswooding.com.

About Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas has narrated over a hundred audiobooks. He has recorded a diverse range of authors, from Andy McNab, James Patterson, Wilbur Smith and Chris Ryan to children's authors such as Derek Landy, Darren Shan, Jamie Rix and Philip Pullman. He has narrated books by Patrick Rothfuss, Haruki Murakami, Mervyn Peake, Rose Tremain and Cormac McCarthy as well as recording classics from Kafka, Conan-Doyle, Lovecraft and Wilde. Rupert has lent his voice to numerous cartoons, including Mr Bean, Robotboy, Gumball, Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder and has performed in over fifty radio productions for BBC Radio 4, including The Brightonomicon and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He spent eighteen months in the West End performing in Stones in his Pockets and was in the original London cast of the smash-hit comedy The 39 Steps.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik on October 25, 2018

3.5/5 stars The Ace of Skulls gave mostly a satisfying ending to the Tales of the Ketty Jay but as a volume, in my opinion this was a slight step back in quality. Tales of the Ketty Jay has always been consistently good from the first book; the third book was a huge step up for the series in which alm......more

Goodreads review by Scott on October 03, 2017

Book 1: 3.75* Book 2: 4.25* Book 3: 4.25* Book 4: 5* Now that is how you tie up a series. Bringing all the elements together into one elongated mega convergence with twists and amazing visual imagery that would be brilliant on the big screen. What really made this series get better and better is that th......more