The Resurrectionist
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The Resurrectionist
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Narrated by:
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Tom Kiteley
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By:
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A. Rae Dunlap
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Death is only the beginning…
'Breathtaking … A new talent [in] the field of gothic historical literature' NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS
'Devilishly macabre … As dark as a midnight graveyard' PATRICE McDONOUGH
'Hauntingly gothic, intimately told, and wickedly, wonderfully grotesque' MARIELLE THOMPSON
In this gothic, twisty debut historical novel, a young medical student is lured into the underworld of body snatching in 19th-century Edinburgh … and unexpectedly falls in love.
1828. James Willoughby arrives in Edinburgh with empty pockets a dream of studying surgery. Desperate to scrape together fees for the city’s leading anatomy school, he strikes a deal with Nye MacKinnon, a dashing young dissectionist who shows James a way into this elite academic realm … via the cemetery.
James descends with Nye into the underground ranks of the Resurrectionists – men infamous for stealing fresh corpses and selling them to professors as anatomical specimens. Before he knows it, they are caught up in a life-or-death scheme as rival gangs of snatchers compete in a morbid race for power and prestige. And as James and Nye lock eyes across graves and dissection tables, they soon realise that they yearn to be more than partners in academic crime …
The Resurrectionist is a thrilling tale of queer love, murder, and the grisly origins of modern medicine.
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A “BEST NEW HORROR NOVEL OF THE MONTH” – ESCAPIST MAGAZINE AND BOOKBUB.COM
A “MOST-ANTICIPATED NEW QUEER BOOK OF THE MONTH” – BOOKRIOT
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And I mean predictability as a compliment! Too often these days, I find myself doing mental gymnastics trying to follow the twists some authors put in their stories in an attempt to ‘keep it interesting’ or whatever their reasoning. The fact that I could predict like 95% of what was going to happen next meant that the story was well written and made sense and didn’t resort to some nigh incomprehensible twist just to ‘not be boring’.
This story IS NOT BORING!! It’s comfortable, it’s cosy, it makes sense! It tested my ability to hold my lunch at points (which I must say, is some feat these days) and I am already climbing my walls waiting for the sequel, something I admittedly was hoping for before I was even a third of the way through the book! (Thankfully, it looks like a sequel is definitely in the works, praise be the author for their toils at both the writing desk and the graveyard !)
This book is an immediate addition to my favourites and I shall listen to it again and again while I await the sequel.
Happy digging!
(Seriously though, the only note I have is that the narrator doesn’t pronounce chagrin right and it’s honestly a little jarring and causes me my own chagrin.)
Perfect!!
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Incredible story and incredible performance
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just perfect
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The book itself is just brilliant. Transporting you back to erie 1800 Edinburgh and the time of body snatching. The characters were so well written. Gothic horror with humour thrown in for good measure.
Looking forward to the next book by A. Rae Dunlap
Beautifully narrated
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Really gripping story
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