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The Grief of Stones
The Grief of Stones | Katherine Addison
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In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead... Celehars life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the citythe foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse. At once touching and shattering, Celehars witnessing for one of these girls will lead him into the depths of his own losses. The love of his friends will lead him out again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Angeles
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The magic of the series rubbed off. The world building is a great as ever but the very slow pacing and pointless melancholy of the characters and setting just didn‘t work for me. The writing of course, is great and the audiobook narrator excellent, but it doesn‘t save the book for me.

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Karisimo
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#audiopuzzling on a rainy day and loving this sequel!

Andrew65 What a great puzzle. 12mo
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swynn
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(2022) Second in the "Cemeteries of Amalo" series, set in the world of Addison's "The Goblin Emperor," featuring a cleric who can read the last thoughts of the dead, and uses the skill to solve mysteries. I quite like this character and this world, and appreciate how Addison finds sympathy even with her villains. I am told this is a planned trilogy so we have one (but only one) more to expect. Looking forward to it.

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Clare-Dragonfly
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Thara Celehar: Communicates with the dead. Needs a cuddle. Bad at flirting. Dreadful at not taking analogies literally.

Here‘s a thing I love about this series: I cannot follow the way titles/honorifics and names work; some things are clear enough, and there seem to be elements of gender, class, and marital status involved, but I can‘t always tell why one person gets a certain version. But Celehar does! He doesn‘t even have to think about it. …

Clare-Dragonfly … I love the depth of worldbuilding and character immersion that Addison pulls off for that to be true. This is just a lovely, rich series. I do feel like Celehar is a bit slow on the uptake regarding the actual mysteries in this book, but then, he‘s dealing with a lot. 1y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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Here‘s my #bookspinbingo board for January! I‘ll be reading the tagged book for my #bookspin and Life Among the Savages (assuming I can find it) for my #doublespin. (I mixed up the markings again. Apparently my brain can‘t make sense of the #doublespin being 10 less than the #bookspin. 😂)

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deirdrebeecher
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Addison is a very good writer and I did enjoy this a lot. But I can't help comparing the Witness books against the Goblin Emperor. And they just lack something, for me. Probably the humour you could always sense in Maia. Thalar is just so depressed. These are escapist books give us a little touch of joy here and there.
Still a strong pick.

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BarbaraJean
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Yaaaaay! So excited for this one. Now I have to carve out some listening time in the next couple weeks.

shanaqui Ahhh enjoy, it's lovely (in print at least). 2y
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xicanti
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Katherine Addison‘s work gets filed under hopeful fantasy, and in some ways THE GRIEF OF STONES lives up to that—but friends, it also gets DARK. Alongside the usual murderers and bureaucrats, Celehar faces off against child pornographers and malicious spirits. There‘s a lot of tough material here, and as much grief as you‘d expect from the title.

At the same time, though, TGOS delivers the pure delight of poking into this world‘s many corners. ⬇️

xicanti (Transit geeks: you‘re gonna love all the tram journeys.) It‘s full of fascinating relationships. The non-criminal characters make the best choices they know how to make.

While the darkness has stayed with me, the bits I treasure are the connections Celehar nurtures; the people he wins over without even trying; the moments where he realizes he can claim his friends the way they‘ve already claimed him.⬇️
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xicanti I finished the book with a deep sense of love and grief—for the characters and all they‘ve dealt with, and for myself because the book was OVER and I wanted to spend more time in this world. 2y
TrishB Great review 👍🏻 2y
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Bookish.SAM Wow! I‘ve never heard of this book but you‘ve sold me! Great review 2y
xicanti @TrishB @Bookish.SAM thank you both! 2y
shanaqui I really need mooooore in this world, because after Grief of Stones, I need to find out if Celehar heals (not just from the... let's call it an injury of this book -- I mean from all his grief, mostly). 2y
xicanti @shanaqui same. I‘m on tenterhooks for the next one. 2y
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shanaqui
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Received to review! That definitely went places. Wow. And I have some slight hope that Thara may be learning to accept comfort and friendship again... maybe.

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shanaqui
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So glad I got a review copy! Though I'm juggling too many things at once and reading really slowly, this is my #BookSpin (or was it my #DoubleSpin...) so I hope to finish it this weekend.

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xicanti
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Let‘s take another look at the chocolate hazelnut buns while I tell you I finished THE GRIEF OF STONES yesterday.

I‘ll have a full review closer to the release date, but for now I need y‘all to know I loved it. While it has more than a touch of Fantastical Travel Syndrome (what I call the phenomenon where you hear a TON about how the characters in a fantasy novel get from place to place), the good stuff is SO GOOD I can‘t even mind. #gaymay

batsy Too enticing! I'd like to take a bite 😆 2y
xicanti @batsy the buns came out very well indeed. 2y
Nute It makes me happy to take another look at this Chocolate Hazelnut Bun!😋 2y
xicanti @Nute it brings me joy, too! 2y
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xicanti
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I read a nice chunk of THE GRIEF OF STONES while I proofed and baked some chocolate hazelnut buns. (Yes, they‘re as good as they look.) The further I get into the book, the more I like it. There‘re maybe a few too many detailed tram journeys for my current mood (Future Me‘ll feel differently), but I‘m all over the new bits of worldbuilding and the various relationships Celehar falls into.

DrexEdit Oh Yay! A new Katherine Addison! 😊 2y
xicanti @DrexEdit always a reason to celebrate! 2y
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xicanti
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The last three books I finished were varying degrees of disappointing. I‘m hoping I can break the streak with THE GRIEF OF STONES. Alas, my ARC doesn‘t have a social media-friendly cover, but the insides are on point so far. Gonna soak up all this glorious atmosphere and poke into new corners of Addison‘s world. #gaymay

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imyril
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#WyrdAndWonder day 2 is books we #CantWaitToRead - for me it‘s The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison. I need to see dedicated, serious, lonely man Thara Celehar get the hug he deserves.

shanaqui I'm planning to read it this month and I hope Thara gets ALL the hugs. So many hugs! 2y
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