A review by ergative
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison

4.0

I really enjoyed the experience of reading this. It's uncommon, I find, for the personality of a first-person narrator to come through so strongly without having a decided efffort to be voicy and irreverant and make explicit decisions about phrasing and language. But somehow I have a perfect image in my mind of Thara Celehar, even though his own narrative voice is decidedly understated. Thin, middle-aged, probably circles under his eyes, damaged voice and quiet demeanour, reserved and self-effacing, and tireless in doing the right thing. I fully understand why his acquaintences rely on him and his friends worry about him. I, too, like spending time in his presence. 

Also, I love the morphological complexity of the onomastics in these books.