The Reign of the Departed Audiobook (Free)

A man looking for death finds purpose in a global beyond our very own in this sweeping fantasy from Greg Keyes (The Briar Ruler, Newton’s Cannon). Errol Greyson hadn’t designed to commit suicide. Roughly he told himself. But waking up after his “weep for help” in the torso of a wood-and-metal construct magically cartoon by Aster?the strange girl from school?was not an outcome he could have imagined. Aster’s outrageous explanations of the quest to get the drinking water of health that could cure her dad seemed as about The Reign of the Departed unreal as her description of Errol’s very own half-dead living, his consciousness stuck in an enchanted automaton while his genuine body was in a coma that it might by no means wake. And undoubtedly, they would have to recruit a girl?a virgin, no less?who had been dead for thirty years, to lead them through something called the Pale, beyond which a couple of magical kingdoms existed. Plus, the danger that Aster could turn him off just like a light change, sending him into a hellish oblivion, was a convincing incentive to cooperate. Everything seemed quite mad: Either Aster was nuts, or Errol was hallucinating. But if it designed a new chance at existence, he reckoned it was worthy of playing along.