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Synopsis
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to scour the world of superstition. As their legions advance, so a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh is delivered to the field hospital tents just behind the battlefront. Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a particularly unorthodox medical unit. Entrusted - for now - with saving lives deemed otherwise un-saveable, the field hospital's crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and Yasnic's thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being disbanded, arrested or worse.
House of Open Wounds: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
Graphic wartime medical content including necromancy, demonology, and battlefield injuries. Contains descriptions of severely wounded soldiers and morally complex use of forbidden magic in a field hospital setting during war.
What to know going in
This book has graphic violence, no sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include torture, graphic violence, death, and mass death (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers who enjoy morally complex war stories will appreciate this dark fantasy about a condemned healer forced to use forbidden magic to save lives.