Content Warnings: rape (and rape of a teenager), sexual violence, slavery, murder, misogyny and sexism, incest, violence, injury description, and blood. 

A synopsis is really hard for this, but basically we’re following Kihrin and his story is being told from two perspectives. In the first Kihrin tells us what happened to him after he was kidnapped and enslaved leading up to how he found himself in the opening situation. The second is how Kihrin found out he was a bastard of a noble house and ended up enslaved, told from a party who Kihrin is not a fan of. This is a twist on a chosen one story that includes magic, demons, dragons, gods, and immortal races.

The audio was done really well in that the different perspectives were told from different narrators with a scribe inserting footnotes, that come off as a sassy narrator sometimes, from a third narrator. There are a lot of different threads that Lyons pulled at and wove together to make a “WTF?!” kind of story that I really enjoyed. There was a body swapping element that I thought was really unique within the magic system and some really interesting use of gods that walk the world. This does get pretty dark, it definitely fits into the grimdark category of fantasy. 

The story does play with gender a lot and many of the characters are queer or ambiguous on the sexuality. Though the story does not focus on sexuality and romance.