mythicalscholar:The fact that The Goblin Emperor is a book about how behaving in a way that is kind,

[dragonlady7]

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The fact that The Goblin Emperor is a book about how behaving in a way that is kind, empathetic, and compassionate in a position of power is not only extremely difficult, but likely to stir up trouble and make a lot of enemies, but never slips into the typical trite “blah blah good men rarely make good Kings” pessimist nonsense, and instead demonstrates how these acts of kindness almost always pay off in the end has healed my soul. My skin is clear and my crops are thriving.

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[minoanmiss]

OMG I need to read this book.

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[dragonlady7]

oh it's *such* a good book. oh my gosh.

it's a bit confusing, check the character list first because people have multiple names and i got lost and didn't know there was a character list and so had to make my own, but.

it was a thought exercise by the author about how one almost never heard of reform coming about absent horrible cataclysm, and she was like, but what if the emperor was a good person instead? so that's it, that's the book.