Guess who jist really read the e tore goblin emperor and cemeteries of amalo series, since they are my comfort books? It me!!
SPOILERS AHEAD
Newst observations and thoughts include:
THEY OFF HANDLY MENTION DRAGONS AND THE MINING COMPNAY IN BOOKS 1 AND 2 OF CEMETERIES OF AMALO???? I COMPLETELY MISSED THIS IN PREVIOIS READ THROUGHS AND STILL LOSING MY MIND OVER IT!!! The planning that went into it from the beginning this means!!! Literally just like a line or two in each book, but damn, checkov's gun do be there!!
I appreciate the romance in book 3 a little more than the first time I read it since I knew to look for it, but compared to the long slow build up with Iana Pel Thenior, I'm still frustrated since it felt a bit rushed in the story, although I will say the meet cute over the dead body is waaaay funnier in retrospect, they are better matched as a pair than Celehar would have been wth Iana especially for how it ends and their theoretical future adventures. I hadn't considered before that they were forced to spend a LOT of time off screen during all of winter that I discredit since we only get small vignettes from it all as compared to the rest of the book/series as we get to see with Iana. We the readers aren't there for a lot of the time spent together and therefore relationship deepening that it still feels a tad rushed/forced to me, but I appreciate and enjoy it more over all now. I do love Iana and Celehar just staying friends, I wish there was more deep relationships that can be intense and platonic depicted in media.
I'm so curious what the airship bomber would have to say about the mines coming under control of the emperial crown, like if he could see all the change he caused. I'm still so angry that his eyes got called "serene and utterly mad" in goblin emperor, since he was right? And not mad? The change he caused was worth the price? He paid it and was aware of the consequences, however misguided or unprincipled. Maybe I feel it should be considered foresight and not madness because Maia is so great, if Chevar had taken over for the Idra regency it would have been real bad.
The pronunciation differences of Alcethemeret will never not bother me.
Othara Thala Celehar hehehehehe, I can't be the only one to think about this.
So many mkte.lines I'm goblin emeperor had me on the Verge of tears this go around. Part of that of head space reading it I know, but also like, part of it is the writing. I only really Internalized what the characters were going through this time around. Like how many unrestful nights our characters have before having to face the horrors that they have to. And how plainly it is written too, like all of Celehars responses to being asked about the Revethathar and the PTSD he has from that he's unwilling to acknowlede, and because he doesn't acknowledge, neither does the writing itself, if that makes any sense? Like I feel the writing itself still usually reflects how the characters feel more than being a neutral narrator, but it doesn't always come off that way. I do also feel like the actual narrators read quickly over some lines I know woukd be ones I'd have to stop on and let sink in because of their truth, and that makes the truth hit less hard I feel, since off to the next sentence already.
God I love the title the grief of stones so much and how much it interacts with all the themes of that book. For it being a middle book, I think it has to be my favorite, since it has nice interplay from book 1 with like the raised stakes of ghoul to revethathar, has a lot of lovely call backs to the hill of werewolves and so on, the threat of Venezers crony from book 1 leaving space for Tomasarin in book 2, I fucking love the witness dude who's a little malformed he's (Csthemar?) I fucking love him, love the scholars a lot too, lots of cool time with tye cornfield people who I love. Deepening relations with Iana Pel Thenior. Closer with the the lovely family in the boarding house. Like just so much great shit happens, the breaking up the photography ring they had going? I also like the break up of book 1 had a lot of everything being interrelated and falling into place because of each other, which is fine and left for big dramatic finale, but I enjoyed the more staggered climaxes to different threads in book 2, and like things being revealed to be related in the end by more chance/happenstance than by Celehar learning it himself/directly. I do love the wife killing scheme in book 1 though, that was good. 2 just builds off of so much of the wonderful foundation 1 gave it, in a way that 3 doesn't since 3 has way more new plot lines it has to introduce a lot .kre forcefully (see: being kidnapped)
The grief of bones, the grief of dragons?, the tomb of stones, also fucking baller titles
The witness for the dragons, the witness for the stones? Don't work as well.
I could talk about these books for fuxking hours