Nine Goblins
Kingfisher T
When a party of goblin warriors find themselves trapped behind enemy lines, it'll take more than whining (and a bemused Elven veterinarian) to get them home again.
Nine Goblins is a novella of low...very low...fantasy.
Then things really hit the fan.
Review: Vernon uses her dry wit and humanistic viewpoint to write a fine take on the usual fantasy tropes. The goblins are a varied lot, long tired of the war and led by Nessilka with the fine skill of a combination veteran kindergarten teacher and first sergeant, who takes in their quirks with the motherly concern, knowing any of them could be killed at any moment. These aren't just cannon fodder to provide a momentary distraction for the Heroes.
Meanwhile Sings-to-Trees also subverts expectations of elves. He has a farm veterinarian's unsentimental view of animals, unlike his elven peers, loving and serving them even at their most disgusting (Unicorns are beautiful creatures, at least until you spend two hours with your arm up their birth canal to make sure a foal doesn't become a breach birth).
I don't think it's going too far to call Vernon's style Pratchettarian. She can do a comedy of clashing cultures in the same fine style, and can also move from the comic to quiet horror much as PTerry does. This is fine addition to her prose career, and one hopes she follows it up by completing the story "Elf vs. Orc" that introduced Sings-to-Trees for the first time.
Highly recommended.
Nine Goblins is a novella of low...very low...fantasy.
Amazon Reader Review:
Then things really hit the fan.
Review: Vernon uses her dry wit and humanistic viewpoint to write a fine take on the usual fantasy tropes. The goblins are a varied lot, long tired of the war and led by Nessilka with the fine skill of a combination veteran kindergarten teacher and first sergeant, who takes in their quirks with the motherly concern, knowing any of them could be killed at any moment. These aren't just cannon fodder to provide a momentary distraction for the Heroes.
Meanwhile Sings-to-Trees also subverts expectations of elves. He has a farm veterinarian's unsentimental view of animals, unlike his elven peers, loving and serving them even at their most disgusting (Unicorns are beautiful creatures, at least until you spend two hours with your arm up their birth canal to make sure a foal doesn't become a breach birth).
I don't think it's going too far to call Vernon's style Pratchettarian. She can do a comedy of clashing cultures in the same fine style, and can also move from the comic to quiet horror much as PTerry does. This is fine addition to her prose career, and one hopes she follows it up by completing the story "Elf vs. Orc" that introduced Sings-to-Trees for the first time.
Highly recommended.
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ISBN:
B00G9GSEXO
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