The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison

[sophia_sol]

Recentlyish @goddamnshinyrock.tumblr read The Goblin Emperor for the first time and started posting about it a whole lot and I was reminded deeply of HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS BOOK and I immediately wanted to reread. But I had to wait until all my books were unpacked from the move so I could access my copy again. And then I could, and I promptly read it very fast, and ahhhh I still adore this book. And I'm getting towards enough rereads finally that I'm more or less able to keep all of the characters straight now! Thank goodness. Golly gee howdy the names and terminology in this book do not lend themselves to ease of keeping track. I mean it's worth it, and I loved it even the first time when I was so confused, but it's definitely easier when I know who's who.

I still have nothing of substance to say about this book, really, just like every other time I've read it. Idk, it's just....endlessly satisfying to read and I don't really have anything to say about that?

Comments

[soupytwist]

I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH. The scene with the bridge is one of my favourite things maybe ever.

(And I always liked the massive confusion thing - cause Maia's so confused, especially at first, so it makes the reader have some of that too.)

[sophia_sol]

Yes! I love Maia the bridge-builder, it's so great!

I think for me at least, the confusion I experience as a reader does not mirror Maia's. It's the similarity of names and terminology, things like the names Beshelar and Berenar - and if those were the only too-similar names I could have probably handled it, but there are scads and scads of names that have similar elements to other names, and I just totally lose the ability to keep track. But Maia never has any trouble with anyone's names or with getting one person confused with another person. His confusion is about the politics and what he ought to be doing and all that, which is a very different kind of confusion.