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⌈ Secret Post #3146 ⌋

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Re: Standalone fantasy novels

[elialshadowpine]

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. It's fucking amazing, it fits all your requirements, though I'll note the plot is heavily political. If you don't like normal political stories, I do suggest trying this one, because the central character is actually, genuinely, a good person trying to function when he very accidentally (... very) ends up the emperor and has NO IDEA how to deal with the exceedingly formal court. And the plot is very much around moral dilemmas. Lots of them. Lots and lots.

My only complaint about the ending is that there wasn't more, but that's in part because I felt it could easily have been a trilogy; author insists it's only a stand alone, sigh. It does stand alone, so I'm not sure how much of that is because I am a series reader, if an unusual one: I save up all the books until I'm ready to read them and then binge them, because I get lost in world settings and one book just isn't enough.