A review by kristinecanwrite
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

5.0

A soft, but nonetheless devastating portrait of the kinds of grief and shame that eat people alive. While this is probably the slowest and most focused of the generally slow and wide-lensed series, and there were places where I missed some of the verve of Witness for the Dead, I was still absolutely obsessed. There are plenty of dangling threads to leave me salivating for the next book, but honestly I'm still screaming about all the times people tried to tell Thara they would love him even if he weren't useful, and will be waiting in the hope that book three is just 200 pages of Iana and Thara talking about opera and feelings.