Goblin Emperor and Witness for the Dead are comfort books for me, and I suspect this book will be one too; there’s something about the writing, the worldbuilding, and the way the characters interact with each other that I really like.

However, Witness for the Dead and Grief of Stones are both really clearly detective novels, and the main character has some attitudes around his work that I find distressing. (Note that I don’t think they are necessarily shared by the author, though I don’t know for certain.)

In any case, I found Grief of Stones more stressful than the previous two books.

CW: suicide, rape mention, stillbirth mention, violence

I’m going to reply to this with another CW that’s a bit more spoilery.