This book is luminous green. Even the edges of the pages are luminous green. It looks like a Yellow Pages although is smaller and not yellow. It’s just the sort of thing that would appeal to the young male readers it is intended for. Just flicking through the pages too there are pictures of the goblins poking their heads or a limb onto the edges of some of the pages inside further keeping the attention.
But they say don’t judge a book by its cover so let me review the actual story too. I thought it was a great story full of suspense. It starts with the goblin Skarper being fired out of a catapult and it ends with Skarper being fired out of a catapult, although there is stuff that happens in between.
On the negative side the first half took a little time to get going as all the different creatures were introduced into the story, from goblins to boglins, and there were a lot of them. Also the story is about far more than just about goblins so the title isn’t entirely accurate although I think that is me being quite pernickety.
Overall there is a fast-paced, enjoyable story here well worth reading.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed on Amazon here.)
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