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Stitches by Nick Kyme

trackofwords's review

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3.0

For Medicae Bucher the grinding war of attrition taking place around him is taking a toll. Fearing for his position, he desperately needs something to go right, so when his patients start surviving when they probably shouldn’t, he doesn’t question his fortune and attributes it to the Emperor’s blessing instead.

It’s well-constructed and engaging, gradually digging deeper into Bucher’s flaws and building towards an inevitable but darkly satisfying conclusion, but what sets this apart is how it lingers on details which other stories would tend to gloss over. Even for 40k it’s visceral, bloody and sometimes hard to read, so your enjoyment of it may be determined, in places, by your tolerance for gore.

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eeves's review

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dark slow-paced

3.5

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