Book Review: The Goblin Emperor

No, this first entry in a series has nothing to do with the Goblin King from Labyrinth. It's set in a world where the only mentioned sapient races are goblins and elves. We get the occasional spell, especially for communication with the dead, along with a few steampunk trappings, yet the important aspects of the story could easily have been told with humans and real past tech. As far as I can tell, Sarah Monette (under pen name Katherine Addison for some reason) chose the genre just to avoid biases associated with history and geography.

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My next read is Isaac Asimov's Second Foundation. It's been a while since I last finished a trilogy.