The Citys Son, Tom Pollock
The Citys Son, Tom Pollock
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The City's Son

Author: Tom Pollock

Narrator: James Langton, Alison Larkin

Unabridged: 11 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2016

Synopsis

Tom Pollock's debut novel and the first volume of the Skyscraper Throne series, The City's Son is an imaginative tale of adventure set in a city that is quite literally alive.Beneath the streets of London lies a city of monsters and miracles, where wild train spirits stampede over the tracks and glass-skinned dancers with glowing veins light the streets.Following a devastating betrayal, Beth Bradley, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist, is suspended from school. Running from a home that she shares with her father who has never recovered after Beth's mother's death, Beth stumbles into the hidden city and meets Filius Viae, London's asphalt-hued crown prince. And her timing couldn't have been more perfect. An ancient enemy is stirring under St. Paul's Cathedral, determined to stoke the flames of a centuries-old war, and Beth and Fin find themselves drawn into the depths of the mysterious urban wonderland, hoping to prevent the destruction of the city they both know and love.

About Tom Pollock

Tom Pollock is a graduate of Edinburgh University and the Sussex University Creative Writing Programme, and a member of the London-based writers' group The T-Party. He has lived everywhere from Scotland to Sumatra, but the peculiar magic of London has always drawn him back.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom on July 03, 2017

Well, I did write it... I'm pretty damn biased.......more

Goodreads review by Justine on June 27, 2017

This book is an analogue to all those stories where the main characters have a deep connection to nature and supernatural elements of the natural world. London is the setting here, and every element arises from the built environment of the City. To say Pollock has brought the City to life would be an......more

Goodreads review by Althea on March 29, 2016

'The City's Son' reminded me of Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere,' with its hidden London full of mysterious beings and supernatural elements. Indeed, London itself is the most memorable 'character' in this book. Our 'guide,' whom the reader follows into this netherworld, is an ordinary girl, Beth. A talen......more

Goodreads review by Keertana on March 23, 2013

You need to know one thing before you delve into this review: I am making a conscious effort to not continue books I don't feel much for. Ever since I joined GoodReads last year, I've felt incredible guilty about DNFing novels, but on every account, I've either finished a bad book and given it a bad......more

Goodreads review by Jessie Leigh on May 25, 2019

Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog! Welcome to a London come alive with voice-eating spiders, mirror-dwelling aristocrats, and talking lights that literally dance upon the streets. A London where Gods and Goddesses walk the roads unnoticed by the normal human population, and fight one another......more

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