The Dirty Energy Source

[heavensqueen]

Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

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Re: One book

[(Anonymous)]

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. It's the perfect antidote for anyone who's getting a little (or a lot!) tired of the grimdark/crapsack trend in modern fantasy. The main character's a half-goblin/half-elf who becomes emperor unexpectedly when his father and several other male relatives die in an airship accident. He hasn't been educated to rule, since he was so far down the line of succession, and now he has to really scramble to do his best despite being unprepared for the whole situation.

The worldbuilding is excellent, the characters are engaging, and the plot managed to surprise me at times due simply to its lack of (melo-)dramatic irony. The main draw, though, as I said above, is that it's a generally kind book; it's not all sweetness and light, but most of the characters--including the main character--try to be good people, and the characters who don't try to be good are nonetheless bad for very human and explicable reasons.