Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: Emma Newman

Brought to you by Penguin.

Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world.

It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call. Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It's always been that way. It's the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes.

But when the headman's son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord's son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.

©2022 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2022 Penguin Audio

I almost skipped Ogres cause it's short...opps

I've said things like "I like Jack London because he doesn't waste words and goes for the heart of the story instead". But I've gotten into buying audible books based, in part, on how much comute time ( I drive over an hour and a half a day) the book will occupy. I almost passed on this one even though I should have know better. Tchaikovsky can ramble on with complex world building and generation spanning plot lines. That is awesome for housework and drive time and is probably more profitable for an author making a living but I had forgotten how satisfying a well told tale, as long as it needs to be and not a sentence longer, can be.

Tchaikovsky does not dissapoint

The second-person narrative style is uncommon and took me a little while to get used to but it was worth it.
I'd like to see more stories set in this world.

I can't recommend this book more

I hereby declare Adrian Tchaikovsky to be the grand master of dystopian fiction. If you liked Brave New World, then this is a must. To tell you any more would spoil it.

Speechless

This book knocked it out of the park. This is how you nail 2nd person POV

Beautiful

This was my first experience with a second person perspective. The whole thing is just amazing.