Random Home presents the audiobook edition of Deadhouse Getting by Ian C. Esslemont, examine by John Banking institutions.

Returning readers towards the turbulent early history of what would end up being the Malazan Empire, the second chapter in Ian C. Esslemont’s thrilling new epic dream sequence .

After the disappointments of Li Heng, Dancer and Kellanved wash up on a little insignificant island named Malaz. Instantly, obviously, Kellanved plans to take it over. To do so they get together with a small music group of about Deadhouse Landing: Path to Ascendancy Book 2 Napans who have fled a civil war on their own home island. The plan, however, soon will go awry as Kellanved develops a strange and dangerous fascination for a mysterious ancient framework found on the island.

The chaos in the region extends to the metaphysical planes also as a young priest of D’rek starts to question the rot at the heart of the worship of the god of decay. And back Li Heng, Dassem, now the proclaimed Sword of Hood, finds himself getting blamed for the plague which leads him to a crisis of faith – and searching for answers.

During all this, war using the neighbouring island of Nap threatens, recruited allies wonder at Kellanved’s sanity, and powerful entities take more of an interest in the tiny mage from Dal Hon. Dancer encounters a hard choice: should he give up on his partnership? Particularly when the fellow’s obsession with shadows and historic artefacts brings the both of these alarmingly close to death and devastation.

After all, who in his right mind would actually wish to enter an Elder mystery recognized to everyone as the ‘Deadhouse’?