![]() Usually I don’t like this sort of feel good story, but there was something quietly empowering about this one. ![]() It was not unlike getting a good meal with friends after a long week, or sinking into bed after a hard day of work. ![]() Maia’s emotional growth from browbeaten child to assured leader is tranquilly cathartic and I finished the story feeling peacefully content. Gradually his and our understanding is built up, and by the novel’s conclusion the workings of the empire have begun to feel natural and intuitive. Maia is deluged by an overwhelming cascade of courtiers, positions of office, customs, and duties, all of which make perfect sense to everyone but him and by extension, the reader. ![]() Katherine Addison’s magnificent prose is extraordinary for its ability to evoke the same feeling of bewilderment and helplessness experienced by the new emperor. Exiled to a life of poverty by his contemptuous father, he suddenly finds himself elevated to Emperor – a role he is neither prepared for nor desires. ![]() The Goblin Emperor is the delightfully uplifting story of Maia, the half-goblin/half-elf fourth son of the ruler of the Elflands. Thou art emperor, Maia said bitterly to himself. ![]()
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