The Hands of the Emperor

This book breaks all the laws of book physics. By all rights, this book should not have worked, and yet it DOES, brilliantly, because Victoria Goddard is just that BREATHTAKINGLY good at characters. This is the kindest, gentlest, most empathetic book I have ever read, and it is still delightfully fu......more

Oh wow, a book that out-The Goblin Emperor's The Goblin Emperor. I found it so compulsively readable and cozy: the main character Kip just wants to do good in the world (like introducing universal basic income??? more fantasy books should do this omg!!). The main "plot" is really his developing rela......more

I’ve just read another book that has me babbling incoherently. I have no idea how to organize my thoughts about this book so I think I will just blither at you. This book is the perfect, the ideal book to read in these troubling times. If you want to read a book in which nothing terribly bad happens......more

Do u like The Goblin Emperor Do u wish The Goblin Emperor was 900 pages long Well do I have the book for YOU!!! This book had all my favorite things - bureaucracy, political machinations, elaborately described formal outfits, crying... YAS!!! (my original review was just "hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah"......more

Hmmmm. My life recently: - new release in series by author I have been reading for years....dud. - another new release in a series by author I have been reading for years......dud. - see random rec on facebook page for a fantasy novel I have never heard of, by an author I have never heard of....may b......more