A review by skycrane
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

5.0

I liked The Grief of Stones almost as much as I liked The Witness for the Dead. Again, it's part mystery, part character study, a story that meanders a bit from topic to topic, but beautifully draws the life of Thara Celehar and this world of his. Something I've noticed about this author from the books of hers I've read: she seems to delight in anticlimax. In The Goblin Emperor, The Witness for the Dead, and The Angel of the Crows, the central mystery, pursued off-and-on throughout the novel, is resolved very suddenly and almost by accident. Looking back at my review, I guess I didn't like that so much in the first book of hers I read, but it's definitely grown on me.