Celehar, though successful in his commission, took no delight in it, nor did he really want any tangible reward the emperor could offer him. Readers of The Goblin Emperor will remember Thara Celehar, the shy and retiring prelate of Ulis to whom the emperor Maia (reigning as Edrehasivir IV) turned to investigate who killed his father and half-brothers. Fans have long awaited a sequel, or at least another volume in the same universe, and The Witness for the Dead does not disappoint. But despite its altered milieu, it has a similar flavour, with an intimate, personal emotional register and a thematic concern with duty and ethics, loneliness and connection, choices and consequences.s Sarah Monette, Katherine Addison has written a tetralogy ( Mélusine, The Virtu, The Mirador, Corambis) and co-written a trilogy with Elizabeth Bear ( A Companion to Wolves and sequels), but she is best known for the award-winning The Goblin Emperor (2014), a novel about an isolated young man who succeeds unexpectedly to the rulership of an empire about his loneliness and his struggle to do right by his responsibilities, his role, and what remains of his family: a struggle to be a kind man and an ethical emperor. The Witness for the Dead isn’t a sequel, focusing as it does on an almost entirely different cast of characters and set as it is far away from the imperial court. The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison ( Tor 978-2-4, $25.99, 240pp, hc) June 2021.
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