A review by loont
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison

4.0

Solid and fun steampunk tinged fantasy/murder mystery novella, it's mostly a fast flying character driven POV affair. My advice is just ignore the piles of fantasy terminology thrown constantly at you, because none of it actually means much of anything to do with the story and even if you're into world building you'll end up tripping over trying to even guess at how to pronounce this every other sentence nonsense.

Once you ignore that you can just enjoy the characters and mundane politics as this swift murder mystery flies by.