2023/072: The Grief of Stones — Katherine Addison

2023/072: The Grief of Stones — Katherine Addison

It was probably the emperor who had saved my life, by giving me a purpose, a task, a question to answer. And then Ulis had spoken to me in a dream, and I had known that my calling had not been taken from me. After that there was no question of suicide, not if my god still needed my work. But I remembered what it had felt like. [loc. 808]

In which Thana Celehar acquires an apprentice (the widow Tomasaran, untrained and ignorant, whose first experience of communing with the recently-departed was over her husband's bier), faces a fearsome revenant, and investigates a case of child pornography. I didn't like this one quite as much as The Witness for the Dead, but that may simply be because I read it immediately after finishing Witness, and the edges got blurred. ( Read more... )