Novella
Ravenous Mother - A Healer
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The Mother. A titanic organism, humanity's home and ravenous god. Housing sprouts like fungus from flesh, wrapped in membranes, supported by cartilage. No stone. No metal.
Within her pulsing bowels, Khulekani is no ordinary healer. He saves lives and ends them with equal nonchalance. He selects the condemned to feed the Mother, purges humanity of impurity. Knowledge is his only purpose.
And when the last heir of a dying clan forces him to choose between saving a bloodline or execution, Khulekani will prove that no one—not nobles, not healers, not even his own family—can stand between him and his goals.
Because there's something worse than risking death: being useful.
The Mother feeds the child. The child feeds the Mother
For readers of Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, Pierce Brown and N.K. Jemisin.
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Violence
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This book slides into fantasy with confidence and then dares you to keep up. It’s dark without being try-hard, smart without being smug, and deeply invested in consequences. Real ones.
Khulekani is a standout lead: thoughtful, stubborn, and clearly one bad decision away from everything going sideways. The tension builds slowly, then suddenly you’re hooked and wondering when it got its claws into you.
The prose is clean, with just enough detail to make scenes snap. And there’s a steady, creeping sense of something is wrong that never quite lets you relax, so good!
If you like your fantasy dangerous, and your stories more slow-burn dread than flashy spectacle, Ravenous absolutely delivers. I just want it to be longer!
