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The Witness for the Dead
- Book One of the Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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"At once intimate and literally operatic, it's everything I love about Katherine Addison's writing, in ways I didn't know to expect. I loved it." (John Scalzi)
Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, The Goblin Emperor, in this stand-alone sequel
When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father’s Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin.
Now Celehar lives in the city of Amalo, far from the Court though not exactly in exile. He has not escaped from politics, but his position gives him the ability to serve the common people of the city, which is his preference. He lives modestly, but his decency and fundamental honesty will not permit him to live quietly. As a Witness for the Dead, he can, sometimes, speak to the recently dead: see the last thing they saw, know the last thought they had, experience the last thing they felt. It is his duty use that ability to resolve disputes, to ascertain the intent of the dead, to find the killers of the murdered.
Celehar’s skills now lead him out of the quiet and into a morass of treachery, murder, and injustice. No matter his own background with the imperial house, Celehar will stand with the commoners, and possibly find a light in the darkness.
Katherine Addison has created a fantastic world for these books - wide and deep and true.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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Not My Genre
- By Roxanne Thayer on 01-06-22
By: James Rollins
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Ninefox Gambit
- By: Yoon Ha Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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To win an impossible war, Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.
Captain Kel Cheris of the Hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris' career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the Hexarchate itself might be next.
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Just too confusing with enough context
- By Jose Alvarez on 04-02-17
By: Yoon Ha Lee
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Witch King
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Eric Mok
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence? Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions.
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I gave up
- By Mara P on 06-26-23
By: Martha Wells
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Running Close to the Wind
- By: Alexandra Rowland
- Narrated by: Casey Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world—and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fence it, profit.
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Funny but Hard to Follow
- By Elisabeth on 07-11-24
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The Spare Man
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim.
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Classic mystery, forward worldbuilding
- By Deana on 10-16-22
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A Memory Called Empire
- Teixcalaan, Book 1
- By: Arkady Martine
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident - or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion.
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Story is great, weird editing, not great narration
- By Nadia on 06-10-19
By: Arkady Martine
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Swordcrossed
- By: Freya Marske
- Narrated by: Omari Douglas
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. Sword-challenge at the ceremony could destroy all hope of restoring his family's wealth, something that Matti has been trying—and failing—to do for the past ten years. What he can afford, unfortunately, is part-time con artist and full-time charming menace Luca Piere.
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The voices, oh Gods the voices!!
- By Anonymous User on 10-13-24
By: Freya Marske
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City of Last Chances
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
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There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood–that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.
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Occupied Paris during WW2 In Fantasy World?
- By caleb on 06-19-23
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The Hazel Wood
- By: Melissa Albert
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, James Fouhey
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: "Stay away from the Hazel Wood."
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dark and modern fairytale
- By Stephanie on 02-02-18
By: Melissa Albert
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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
- By: C. M. Waggoner
- Narrated by: Cindy Piller
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies—and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count...but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths is unnatural. When someone close to Sherry ends up dead, and her cat, Lord Thomas Crowell, becomes possessed by what seems to be an ancient demon, Sherry begins to think she’s going to need to become an exorcist as well as an amateur sleuth.
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Cozy Supernatural Whodunit Murder Mystery
- By Stephanie on 10-11-24
By: C. M. Waggoner
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Crossings
- A Novel
- By: Alex Landragin
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 24 hrs and 24 mins
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On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be listened to one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl.
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Worst is book I ever bought
- By Diane on 08-20-21
By: Alex Landragin
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Length: 18 hrs
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Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.
By: V. E. Schwab
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The Ruin of Kings
- By: Jenn Lyons
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Vikas Adam, Soneela Nankani
- Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
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Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he is claimed against his will as the long-lost son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds that being a long-lost prince isn't what the storybooks promised. He also discovers that the storybooks have lied about a lot of other things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, true love, and how the hero always wins. Then again, maybe he’s not the hero, for Kihrin is not destined to save the empire. He’s destined to destroy it.
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Amazing
- By Kevin Potter on 02-07-19
By: Jenn Lyons
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- Dione Basseri
- 07-17-22
A new, fascinating focus in the Goblin Emperor!
Why did I sit on this book so long? Just the crushing weight of my TBR, really....
Now, this book is a thematic departure from the "Goblin Emperor." But in quality, it remains as riveting as the first book in the series! If you loved book 1 and are wondering if you'll like a book that does not focus on Maia/Edrehasivar, do not worry; you'll fall in love with the narrative voice of Thara Celehar as fast as you did with Maia's.
This book is more about mystery, the human (or elf and goblin) psyche, and a world abound in necromantic magics. Celehar, as a Witness for the Dead, is sometimes aided by his ability to summon the spirits of the recently departed for inquiry, but more often, has to solve crimes through deduction and interviews with the still-living. Sadly, no Zone of Truth for this Witness, meaning recognizing that even the most helpful (and handsome) of interviewees might muddle his case with half-truths and outright lies.
The speech of the book is very formal, a lot of "thee" and "thou" and "we" instead of "I," but overall, it's not stultifying. I think that it works great in the audiobook version, where you just get into the groove and accept the narrator's cadence. Addison highlights any slips in grammar (especially slips into less-formal "you" and "I") in a way that adds to the mystery. It's not flavor. It's an actual important part of the story.
All of the book is fantastic, of course, but I particularly love any section where we learn more about the world's fantasy elements. The section on the Hill of Werewolves was such a contemplative and FASCINATING section.
I loved this book so much that I jumped right into the next book when I was done. Thank goodness for ARCs!
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- Shannan Berkbuegler
- 09-11-21
3 Cheers for Thara Celehar!
I could not put this story down! The Goblin Emperor was wonderful, and this was even better. This fantasy world is fresh as well as familiar, the characters are so real. I loved this narrator as he brought great depth & voicing to the different players, but mostly made Celehar sound perfectly… himself. I think his voicing was excellent for this character and was a wise change from the excellent narrator who voiced Maia in The Goblin Emperor— two very different people, very different characters, so the different voices were fitting, in my opinion. I hope the author explores this world more, it’s been a fun ride to see it from a different point of view. Celehar could have his own murder mystery series.
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- Andre Wallace Simonsen
- 07-21-21
An incredible addition to the series!
Taking place in the same wonderful, magical and highly traditional world of "The Goblin Emperor" (TGE), "Witness for the Dead" (WFTD) show us the daily life of Thara Celehar, one of its most honourable and lawful characters, on his routine as a Witness for The Dead, a kind of state cleric/detective wich performs religious rituals and investigates murders using traditional techniques as well as... speaking with the dead (even if just briefly).
For fans of the Witcher 3, wich one can argue is the greatest detective game ever made, the book reads a lot like a Main Quest with a major murder-mystery and several sidequests wich get on the way of its progress but are nevertheless really interesting and flesh out the world established on the first book.*
A lot of the same themes touched upon on TGE appear again on this romance and we get a look on even more traditions and fantasy politics wich mirror real world problems of the 21st century. ai think my world view aligns a lot with the author and I really liked the way she masterfully handles topics such as homosexuality, feminism and other relevant topics.
Katherine Addison has a way of constructing characters that makes you really care about them (be it their personalities or actions) and it's simply joyful to spend time with them and see them achieving their goals.
Being totally honest, I liked the sidequests even more than the main story and since I love Celehar, I'd gladly follow his routine as a witness forever, wich makes me hopeful that we get another title on the future - especially one where he gets a much deserved happily ever after**.
The narrator is great, but sometimes there's a huge dissonance between his reading and Celehar actually speaking with his rough and at the same time kind voice, wich made the experience strike out in a good manner (it feels like you got out of Celehar's mind and into the world).
Reading TGE is obligatory to enjoy and understand everything about this one, but even though it's a different kind of story, I highly recommend it for fans.
*Seriously, there's even a sidequest with ghouls! If there was a lady with a missing pan I would have died laughing!
**He's an absolute treasure of a person that deserves to be happy.
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- colleenish
- 03-18-23
A fantasy murder mystery
Love the continuing adventures of Thara Celehar, whose kindness and courage make him a powerful moral center for this action-packed and spooky sequel. I reread this often.
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- Shay Barnett
- 11-12-23
So good!!
This book is my comfort re-read. The voice acting and story are both fantastic! The world building is really rich and Thora is so relatable and kind. It reads a lot like a collection of short stories about Thora Celehar (who is kind of a detective for the dead), but everything gets tied together in the end!
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- aya knowledgegod
- 06-24-21
very good
so happy to have a continuation of stories in this world. i will admit that i enjoyed the reader for the goblin emporer better, but this reader isn't at all bad. Mer Celehar has a busy and trying life! I always liked him as a character and was pleased to find that this story is about him and right after the events of the first book rather than a completely unrelated story.
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- Will Sexton
- 07-08-21
Just Wonderful
I love Katherine Addison's world of the goblin emperor and this is a great addition.
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- Matt G.
- 03-20-22
Excellent book and inspired performance
The natural and fluent performance of Addison’s richly conceived, wonderfully “human” (well…) story — with remarkable character work for Addison and the performer alike — confidently elevates this tale to the weightiness and authenticity of a sort of slipstream historical narrative. Can this not be a portrait of real cultures of our own world’s past? This fabulous book gains even more in this telling!
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- kjfbw
- 06-23-21
New delight
It took me a while to get into this new story but it is just as rich , charming and immersive as the Goblin Emperor. You feel like you really know this amazing different world where fascinating things happen. After the great narration of the first book, I was a bit disappointed in this narration. Although his command of different people speaking was excellent, the main character seemed less connected to the narrator. Lots of things happened o the main character but the narrator never really seemed to care.
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-07-21
exploration of a different part of the world
If you loved The Goblin Emperor and want to explore the working class and tradesmen and religious structures of that industrializing world, then this is the story for you. As deep and rich as TGE , and with an almost completely different cast, It's an amazingly detailed- especially the geography of the city. It reminds me of Russian novels, The Name of the Rose, and histories of early industrialization. It is none of these things, but that's what it reminds me of.
The reader deserves an award for his smooth and unhesitating mixing of English and fantasy vocabulary. An exemplary performance!
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