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Katherine Addison: The Orb of Cairado (EBook, 2025, Subterranean Press)

Set in the world of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee The Goblin Emperor, …

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Katherine Addison: The Orb of Cairado (EBook, 2025, Subterranean Press)

Set in the world of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee The Goblin Emperor, …

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Katherine Addison: The Orb of Cairado (EBook, 2025, Subterranean Press)

Set in the world of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee The Goblin Emperor, …

The Orb of Cairado is yet another detective story set in the Goblin Emperor universe. It follows Ulcetha, a disgraced scholar whose best friend has just died in the same airship crash that starts off The Goblin Emperor.

The writing is typical of the series, although it's interesting to have a protagonist who's a bit more venal and self-serving than Maia and Celehar.

I wouldn't mind more Ulcetha stories, although I'm not sure how much more adventure lies in his future.

Christopher Rowe: The Navigating Fox (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …

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Christopher Rowe: The Navigating Fox (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …

Whew, the ending felt so sudden I think I hurt something.

The Navigating Fox is like a thousand-page fantasy epic crammed into 150 pages. It's super well written, and the setting is great and I want more, particularly the Northern Membership - although I could stand to go a few days without reading the word "knowledgeable". Now give me the thousand-page edition. 😀

Suyi Davies Okungbowa: Warrior of the Wind (2023, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

This is a book about five different people fighting over who gets to slaughter the goose that lays golden eggs.

It's very much "the middle book in a trilogy" - lots of stuff happens, but almost nothing is resolved. The author keeps introducing new, cool parts of the setting and new, horrible characters. The stakes are ratcheted way up and the mysterious backstory is unraveled further. I'm looking forward to the next installment.