The Witness for the Dead

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Katherine Addison: The Witness for the Dead (EBook, 2021, Rebellion Publishing Ltd)

eBook

English language

Published July 21, 2021 by Rebellion Publishing Ltd.

ISBN:
978-1-78618-504-4
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4 stars (1 review)

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reviewed The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (The Goblin Emperor #2)

a beautiful world to exist in

4 stars

This was one of those books that when it ended, I missed getting to be in the world. It has a kind of understated, slice-of-life feel, with a lot of detail and reverence paid to the minutia of daily life and community relationships, that felt more prominent to me than the murder mysteries. Addison writes with an immense amout of compassion and tenderness, and for me that is what makes this book, and The Goblin Emperor, transcend what they would be on their face, in terms of plot.

The writing style drops you into the cultural nuances of the society largely without explanation, and you can infer, for example, what different honorifics mean through context. I really really like this and I think overall its very well done, but I think it would be more daunting if I hadn't already read The Goblin Emperor, and there were some …