![]() In Amalo, Celahar works with the Vigilant Brotherhood, the equivalent of a non-investigating police force. In The Goblin Emperor, Celahar worked for Edrehasivar VII, the new and young Emperor of the Ethuveraz, to solve the mystery of an exploded airship. The Witness for the Dead continues Addison’s exploration of the Ethuveraz kingdom by sending Thara Celahar, the eponymous Witness and a prelate (a priest) of Ulis, to Amalo, a city in the north of the kingdom, where his calling is to represent the interests of the dead by listening to their memories, and often their deaths. ![]() The richness and complexity of the Untheileneise Court, and the intensity of the relationships between the characters-elven and goblin and variations in between-enhanced by Addison’s persuasive construction of an ancient civilisation encrusted with formalities of ritual, make a deeply satisfying read. ![]() Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor (2014) is one of my favourite fantasy novels published in the last ten years. ![]()
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