The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison This book has been nominated for Best Novel in the 2015 Hugo Awards. As a Hugo voter this year I received an ebook copy of in the Voter Packet. This is a very well written and reasonably enjoyable slice of Fantasy. It’s very much about the intrigue behind the scenes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,66,13,50,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-2","category-books","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-rated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"the](\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-goblin-emperor-101x150.jpg\")
<\/span>This book has been nominated for Best Novel in the 2015 Hugo Awards.
\nAs a Hugo voter this year I received an ebook copy of in the Voter Packet.
\nThis is a very well written and reasonably enjoyable slice of Fantasy.
\nIt’s very much about the intrigue behind the scenes of the imperial court of an ancient empire.
\nThe titular character (whose real name is Maia) starts the story as a spineless ingenue. This quickly gets annoying. Fortunately he grows and gets to show some real personality and character as the plot develops.
\nBy the end I really wanted to see what was going to happen next. It’s set up in a way that makes me think that I will find the sequel more enjoyable than this book.
\nI certainly recommend The Goblin Emperor if you like well-written, character led Fantasy and you’re more a fan of political intrigue than grimdark fantasy violence.<\/p>\n