The Goblin Emperor

The central question that we led the episode with is why can't I just skip to the end? Often that question grows out of, I'm not having as much fun writing the middle as I was. The book of the week is something that I have recently read which is the Goblin Emperor by Catherine Addison and it's narrated by Kyle McCarley. We often have a young person who is thrust onto the throne after having been kept in the backwaters or an orphan but we never see what it's actually like to be on the throne. And so this starts with, and this is like the first page. Everybody dies in the imperial court except for this one, like somebody who's