Cage of Souls
by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus, 2019)
audiobook read by David Thorpe (Clipper, 2019)
A turgid standalone of trilogy-length but only a novella’s worth of storyline. Tchaikovsky’s dying humanity is not without interest, but only his characters prove genuinely worth the investment—all save the insipid viewpoint narrator with whom we’re lumbered for the 23-hour duration.