A review by spoogs
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

The first half of this book was just not it. Im not the biggest fan of high fantasy, but I have read my fair share of it, but the names and places and titles in this book were just too much. I read Chinese fantasy stories where everyone has 2 to 3 names and it was far less confusing than this. I spent most of the book just trying to remember who was who (and the guide didn't help much as most descriptions of places or people had another term or name I had to look up, which made me spend like 1p minutes just trying to tie everything together enough to remember who was who)

And the story was just slow. It did build up at the end and get better in the last 5 chapters or so, but most of the book was just meetings and letters and walking around. Even when things did happen, it all felt so anticlimactic.