BROOD, A Goblin's Return

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Grik is the last goblin in the world. A hundred years ago the horde marched to war, and the dead marched home. Every warboss, every shaman, every friend Grik ever had is gone, and the Harvest King’s grey country runs from the mountains to the southern swamps. Grik has outlived all of it, mostly by hiding. He is old now. His knees are bad. He still counts the exits. Then a white plague creeps out of the swamps. It rots everything it touches, except him. The Rustscales are cold-blooded hunters who have held the swamp against the dead for a century. Now they are dying in their villages, and they need someone who can walk into the plague and walk out again. Grik needs something only their swamp can give him: the warm, rotten dark where goblins are born. Both sides shake on it. Both sides are lying. What Grik wakes in the swamp will set the Rustscales against the Harvest King, bring a mob of hungry, scheming, half-grown goblins squabbling into the world, and send them north to find a home of their own. But the dead are not the only ones who remember goblins. Some remember what goblins were for. BROOD is grimdark war fantasy from the bottom of the pecking order: brutal, blackly funny, and told by the last goblin alive, who would very much like not to be. Book Two of the Long Harvest. The sequel to FODDER.