#8: Katherine Addison, The Tomb of Dragons (Cemeteries of Amalo #3)
This final book of the trilogy neatly wraps up all of the plot threads introduced earlier in the series while also being completely unpredictable from one page to the next. It even circles back, at last, to the court of The Goblin Emperor himself. I'll preserve my character name cheat sheet (up to four dozen lines by now) in the hopes that we haven't seen the last of Celehar and his friends.