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The Witness for the Dead
- Book One of the Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy
- Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
- Durée: 8 h et 12 min
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Description
"At once intimate and literally operatic, it's everything I love about Katherine Addison's writing, in ways I didn't know to expect. I loved it." (John Scalzi)
Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, The Goblin Emperor, in this stand-alone sequel
When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father’s Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin.
Now Celehar lives in the city of Amalo, far from the Court though not exactly in exile. He has not escaped from politics, but his position gives him the ability to serve the common people of the city, which is his preference. He lives modestly, but his decency and fundamental honesty will not permit him to live quietly. As a Witness for the Dead, he can, sometimes, speak to the recently dead: see the last thing they saw, know the last thought they had, experience the last thing they felt. It is his duty use that ability to resolve disputes, to ascertain the intent of the dead, to find the killers of the murdered.
Celehar’s skills now lead him out of the quiet and into a morass of treachery, murder, and injustice. No matter his own background with the imperial house, Celehar will stand with the commoners, and possibly find a light in the darkness.
Katherine Addison has created a fantastic world for these books - wide and deep and true.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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- 2023-06-23
Good for a bit of intrigue and skuething
This story plays like an episode of Columbo with a little touch of fantasy - for better or worse.
I suppose that to write a good story with immersion one would have to have seemingly mundane conversations that move the story forward at least just a little, with important details sprinkled in to help with the bigger reveals. To do this only a few times would be too obvious that these conversations are actually important. The author over compensates quite a bit though.
This author is quite capable of making a fantasy world of ghouls and people who can speak with the dead to seem very normal. That's good immersion. The problem is it's easy to drop out of focus for ten minutes and come back having missed nothing substantial.
The change in narrator from the first book can be jarring (I don't know why audio book companies do that), but after a few chapters this one picks up his stride and does well, while we adjust to slightly different mannerisms and voices.
A good story. Interesting points. It just felt like they walked away from the main plot to do side quests and then picked up the main story again. A whole journey with a yellow coat wasn't really helpful to the story.
Good. Not great.
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