Conan: City of the Dead
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Narrated by:
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Bradford Hastings
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By:
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John C. Hocking
About this listen
Two epics in one as Conan the mercenary faces hideously transformed wizards and undead creatures in action-packed fantasy combining Robert E. Howard’s trademark sword and sorcery with concepts straight out of Lovecraftian horror.
Combines the classic Conan and the Emerald Lotus with the all-new, original Conan and the Living Plague.
The long-awaited follow-up to Conan and the Emerald Lotus brings John C. Hocking back to the sagas of the Cimmerian.
In Conan and the Emerald Lotus, the seeds of a deadly, addictive plant grant sorcerers immense power, but turn its users into inhuman killers.
In the exclusive, long-awaited sequel Conan and the Living Plague, a Shemite wizard seeks to create a serum to use as a lethal weapon. Instead he unleashes a hideous monster on the city of Dulcine. Hired to loot the city of its treasures, Conan and his fellows in the mercenary troop find themselves trapped in the depths of the city’s keep. To escape, they must defeat the creature, its plague-wracked undead followers, then face Lovecraftian horrors beyond mortal comprehension.
©2024 John C. Hocking (P)2024 Blackstone PublishingListeners also enjoyed...
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City of the Dead: A sword and sorcery take on the incursion into a city overrun by zombies horror story, in which Conan and a mercenary band must contend with an eldritch incarnation of plague created by accident by an apprentice sorcerer seeking to create the ultimate biological super weapon and his army of ravening infected.
The narrator and text took me a while to get used to, as I prefer a bit more dramatic build up to when characters kill one another or do battle. The way both stories play is rather procedural, but there is enough excitement in the story to keep me hooked. Conan is Conan and a likeable, affable and blunt hero who we all root for as well as the friends he allies with. I highly enjoyed both stories even if I preferred a more dramatic approach to the combat scenes. I also think a couple of details may have been missed in places to help me fully grasp the scene (I.e. how many magic crystal daggers a sorcerer uses in a couple of scenes) , but then again I listen to audiobooks late at night at the gym and during my driving at times so perhaps that is on me for not fully paying attention.
Overall both works are 8/10 for conan being conan and for being almost perfect at engaging the listener/reader.
Two well written and fun Conan stories for one credit
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