{"id":2659,"date":"2014-06-18T10:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:35:57","slug":"the-goblin-emperor-by-katherine-addison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a classic tale of\u00a0a discarded\u00a0son being\u00a0suddenly thrust into the limelight and a position he was never trained for.\u00a0 Maia’s world is turned upside down\u00a0when an airship crash kills his father —\u00a0the emperor —\u00a0 as well as\u00a0all those in the line of succession before Maia.\u00a0 Maia, who has been raised in the harsh and unloving home of his uncle far from the capital, is awakened by a courier\u00a0and whisked off to the imperial court to take his place as the new emperor of the elves.\u00a0 Maia himself is half goblin on his mother’s side.\u00a0 Maia,\u00a0a young man of integrity and intelligence though woefully uneducated,\u00a0struggles to learn the endless things he doesn’t know\u00a0in order to preside over\u00a0the empire effectively.\u00a0\u00a0The court is\u00a0full of intrigue and danger, but Maia also finds some allies.<\/p>\n

The world building and character development in this fantasy novel are excellent and drew me in.\u00a0 Names of people are long and rather foreign, but there is a pronunciation guide and glossary in the back.\u00a0 Though the book doesn’t say so, I’m hoping that this is the beginning of a series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a classic tale of\u00a0a discarded\u00a0son being\u00a0suddenly thrust into the limelight and a position he was never trained for.\u00a0 Maia’s world is turned upside down\u00a0when an airship crash kills his father —\u00a0the emperor —\u00a0 as well as\u00a0all those in the line of succession before Maia.\u00a0 Maia, who has been raised in the harsh and … Continue reading The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}