Gods of the Wyrdwood

Name: Gods of the Wyrdwood
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: RJ Barker
ISBN: 9781668628171

Author: RJ Barker

Narrator: Jude Owusu

Unabridged: 22 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 06/27/2023

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Action & Adventure, Dragons

Synopsis

In a land of gods and wars, a brave forester encounters prophets, warrior monks, and mysterious magic in this exciting fantasy novel. Cahan du Nahare is known as the forester—a man who can navigate the dangerous Deepforest like no one else. But once he was more. Once he belonged to the god of fire.

Udinny serves the goddess of the lost, a goddess of small things; when she ventures into the Deepforest to find a lost child, Cahan will be her guide. But in a land where territory is won and lost for uncaring gods, where temples of warrior monks pit one prophet against another—Cahan will need to choose the forest or the fire—and his choice will have consequences for his entire world.

For more from RJ Barker, check out:

The Wounded Kingdom
Age of Assassins
Blood of Assassins
King of Assassins

The Tide Child Trilogy
The Bone Ships
Call of the Bone Ships
The Bone Ship's Wake

Author Bio

RJ Barker lives in Leeds with his wife, son and 'a collection of questionable taxidermy'. He grew up reading whatever he could get his hands on, and having played in a rock band before deciding he was a rubbish musician, RJ returned to his first love, fiction, to find he is rather better at that. As well as his debut epic fantasy series, the Wounded Kingdom trilogy (Age of Assassins, Blood of Assassins and King of Assassins) RJ has written short stories and historical scripts which have been performed across the country. He has the sort of flowing locks any cavalier would be proud of. RJ's novel The Bone Ships is the winner of the British Fantasy Society's Best Novel, aka the Robert Holdstock Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick on May 10, 2023

RJ Barker is up there with the select handful of authors whose books I will buy immediately upon their release, an "auto-buy" author if you will. Both of his previous series entertained the heck out of me and are also quite different in setting and theme. That right there should tell you what a vers......more

Goodreads review by William on October 24, 2024

I have the honour of interviewing Papa John Gwynne and R.J. Barker at Leeds Waterstones, so I picked up Gods of the Wyrdwood. I thoroughly enjoyed The Tide Child trilogy, so it was great to be back in Barker's immersive style that thrusts us into a very different world from the one we know. The secr......more

Goodreads review by Shirin on July 03, 2023

8.5/10 For those all who did not finish this book, listen to me very carefully, you made a very terrible mistake to give up on it as it eventually becomes captivating and engrossing. Took time till this book start a fire. “The only certain failure is never to try.” In the realm filled with Gods, old, n......more

Goodreads review by Holly Hearts Books on August 14, 2023

This is a brand new fantasy from the author who wrote The Tide Child trilogy but instead of being on the high seas with dragons, we are in the dark forest with very strange creatures that are almost alien. The book begins with a really interesting prologue, a ton of names and terms are thrown at you......more

Goodreads review by The Speculative Shelf on April 18, 2023

As a big fan of R.J. Barker’s Bone Ship trilogy, I was excited to sink my teeth into his follow-up series. Here he trades guillame for gasmaw, shipwife for skyraft, and hag for hetton. I was impressed by Barker’s ability to once again conjure up an entirely new world filled with distinct and fascina......more