Circle of Enemies, Harry Connolly
Circle of Enemies, Harry Connolly
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Circle of Enemies
A Twenty Palaces Novel

Author: Harry Connolly

Narrator: Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/29/2020


Synopsis

Former car thief Ray Lilly is now the expendable grunt of a sorcerer responsible for destroying extradimensional predators summoned to our world by power-hungry magicians.

Luckily, Ray has some magic of his own, and so far it's kept him alive. But when a friend from his former gang calls him back to his old stomping grounds in Los Angeles, Ray may have to face a threat even he can't handle.

A mysterious spell is killing Ray's former associates, and they blame him. Worse yet, the spell was cast by Wally King, the sorcerer who first dragged Ray into the brutal world of the Twenty Palace Society.

Now Ray will have to choose between the ties of the past and the responsibilities of the present, as he and the Society face not only Wally King but a bizarre new predator.

About Harry Connolly

Child of Fire, Harry Connolly's debut novel and the first in the Twenty Palaces series, was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Novels of 2009. The sequel, Game of Cages, was released in 2010 and the third book, Circle of Enemies, came out in 2011, as did a prequel (cleverly) titled Twenty Palaces. King Khan, a pulp adventure novel based on the role-playing game Spirit of the Century, was released in 2013 by game company Evil Hat.

Later in 2013, Harry ran a Kickstarter for his apocalyptic epic fantasy trilogy, The Great Way, which was released in 2015. As stretch goals for that project, he published his pacifist urban fantasy A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark, and the short fiction collection Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy, which includes the Twenty Palaces short story "The Homemade Mask."

Harry lives in Seattle with his beloved wife, his beloved son, and his beloved library system.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan

Let me say right up front that my score on this book is strongly influenced by my meta-understanding that there will be no more books in the series. If there were going to me more this book would be much more satisfying. I continue to like this world and found that the character development enjoyable......more

Dang, I love these books. I'm so bummed the publisher had to cancel the series (and they seemed sorry about it too.) If the author decides to self-publish, I'll definitely keep buying this series. As I quipped on Twitter, this book grabbed me like a facehugger from the Alien movies. It had me readin......more

Много силен завършек на трилогията. Точно когато започнах да се чудя дали Конъли няма да затъне в преразказване на един и същ сюжет – в малко градче се появявяа хищник и започва да тероризира местното население, появява се Рей и с много угризения си свършва работата. – авторът отново успя да ме изнен......more