The Ruin of Angels

Max Gladstone

Dec 2019 · Craft Sequence Book 6 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Cindy Kay

About this audiobook

The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren't looking, a squidlike tower dominates the skyline, and the foreign Iskari Rectification Authority keeps strict order in this once-independent city-while treasure seekers, criminals, combat librarians, nightmare artists, angels, demons, dispossessed knights, grad students, and other fools gather in its ever-changing alleys, hungry for the next big score. Priestess/investment banker Kai Pohala (last seen in Full Fathom Five) hits town to corner Agdel Lex's burgeoning nightmare startup scene, and to visit her estranged sister Ley. But Kai finds Ley desperate at the center of a shadowy, and rapidly unravelling, business deal. When Ley ends up on the run, wanted for a crime she most definitely committed, Kai races to track her sister down before the Authority finds her first. But Ley has her own plans, involving her ex-girlfriend, a daring heist into the god-haunted desert, and, perhaps, freedom for an occupied city. Because Alikand might not be completely dead-and some people want to finish the job.

Ratings and reviews

It's a fantastic ride all the way through, exactly what I love about this series. Max Gladstone knows how to have fun with his stories while treating such fun with a thoughtful, deft, and caring hand. I deeply respect sincerity in my stories and these are deeply sincere characters and the story is interested in them as people and all the context that makes them who they are. Context built from a wondrous, flawed, and dystopic world full of optimists being bled dry by the cynicism of everyone else. This was such a great read!

About the author

Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning author, Max Gladstone, is the author of many books, including Last Exit, Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This Is How You Lose the Time War.

Cindy Kay is a Chinese-Thai-American narrator and educator who grew up in the California Bay Area and lives in the Rockies. Her work has been described as listening to a "cozy best friend." She narrates fiction and nonfiction, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese.