Leech
by Hiron Ennes · first published 2022
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In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed. In the frozen north, the Institute's body will discover a competito
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On the note of memory consuming entities and coming with spectacular World building and an outstanding prose: Leech by Hiron Ennes. Ennes latest book The Works of Vermin is even better.
on “Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division” ↗Leech, by Hiron Ennes. Gothic SF/horror story, set in a cold northern town built around a crumbling chateau. A doctor from the Institute is sent to find out how the previous doctor died, because the Institute…
on “Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?” ↗Hiron Ennes is brilliant. Deep without fluff or lenghty exposition. If you liked The Works of Vermin - her other book, Leech is also brilliant. Another very good gothic fantasy novel is Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov.
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