Thara’s lover, Evru, killed his abusive wife. One of these is his sometimes-despised queerness and another is his past involvement in a huge scandal. Thara serves in this role with compassion, humility, and skill, but he has what others consider liabilities. The work is a combination of gleaning brief snatches of the last impressions of the recently dead, solving mysteries on behalf of the grieving, ministering to the dying, conducting funerals, and having to deal with intra-church politics. Thara, a Witness for the Dead, was tasked with discovering who the killers were and he got to the bottom of that mystery.Ī Witness for the Dead is a spiritual and investigative role that involves investigation, worship, ministration, and a magical ability. Their murder was accomplished through a terrorist act-an explosive device smuggled onto an airship that they boarded.
The chain of events in The Goblin Emperor is set off by the assassination of the Emperor of the Ethuvarez and three of his sons. I had liked Thara Celehar, a secondary character in The Goblin Emperor, and was happy to have the opportunity to read more about him. So when I heard The Witness for the Dead, a second novel set in the Ethuvarez (the elven empire where The Goblin Emperor and The Witness for the Dead take place) was coming out, I jumped at the chance to review it, even knowing that Maya, the marvelous hero of The Goblin Emperor, would not be appearing in it. When the novel was nominated for a Hugo, I was thrilled when it lost, I felt disappointed. It was my favorite of all the books I read that year and I’ve read it three more times since. I am a huge fan of your 2014 steampunk fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor. Janine Book Reviews / C- Reviews clergy / diversity / elves / Fantasy / funeral / goblins / grief / investigation / LGBTQIAP+ / loner / murder / mystery / opera / queer characters / steampunk / traumatic-past 16 Comments
JREVIEW: The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
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