Name: The Goblin Emperor
Rating: 4.0400390625 (512 reviews)
ISBN: 9781781087305

The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir.

Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment.

Surrounded by sycophants eager to curry favor with the naïve new emperor, and overwhelmed by the burdens of his new life, he can trust nobody. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the specter of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must quickly adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor. All the while, he is alone, and trying to find even a single friend... and hoping for the possibility of romance, yet also vigilant against the unseen enemies that threaten him, lest he lose his throne – or his life.

Katherine Addison is the fantasy pen name of American writer Sarah Monette. Her fiction explores conscience, duty, grief, and the practical work of kindness within intricate social and political systems.

The Goblin Emperor won the 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Addison returned to its world in the Cemeteries of Amalo sequence: The Witness for the Dead, The Grief of Stones, and The Tomb of Dragons. She also wrote the alternate-Victorian fantasy The Angel of the Crows and the novella The Orb of Cairado.

Writing as Sarah Monette, she is also the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths novels, short-fiction collections, and the Iskryne trilogy with Elizabeth Bear. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin.