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The Death of the Necromancer
by Martha Wells
This is my fourth or fifth time reading this (I guessed on the older dates, but I know I read it the week it came out and I know I reread it at least once in conjunction with the Fall of Ile Rien trilogy, and I think I reread this and Element and the first two Fall books when the third one pubbed, so 2005 would make sense for that; there's a pretty solid chance I also reread in 2003, when the first Fall book came out). It's still fantastic. And the literary shoutouts get even better with time -- I knew Ronsarde was a play on a certain brilliant detective trope, but I don't think I realized that while he's not precisely Holmes, Halle is totally Watson until this time around. And I love the depth of Ile-Rien in terms of world-building -- Madeline quotes from plays! History! Technological advances! Just for that -- that the Fay are only barely a threat here, when 100 years ago (in element of fire) they were a massive issue, but the railroads and the iron everywhere have transformed the worlds -- massive props, but then you also add amazing characters and tight plotting and not everything spelled out and man, it's just SO GOOD.
Now I want to go read the followup trilogy again, too.
Now I want to go read the followup trilogy again, too.