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Well, color me charmed. I got Nine Goblins on audiobook a while back and listened to it in one fell swoop on an interstate drive. It kept me thoroughly entertained through north Alabama, Tennessee, and part of Kentucky. I’m new to cozy fantasy, and let me just say I’m really loving it so far. Sometimes you just need a book that isn’t intense, that’s clever and witty, that’s mostly about the characters.
Nessilka is the sergeant over a group of goblins fighting a war against humans and wizards and any other creatures keeping the goblins from just living the life they want. Goblins aren’t exactly the best soldiers, and their leaders don’t tend to be high-caliber either, but Nessilka is what I’d call an exception. She’s fairly serious about the group functioning like an actual army unit. But of course she knows logically that won’t happen. They’re generally all lazy and cowardly.
What makes things a bit serious, though, is when Nessilka and eight of her soldiers all end up, thanks to magic, far, far behind enemy lines and facing some serious danger from a sociopathic wizard. Somehow they’ll have to figure out how to outmaneuver this wizard and get back home.
Oh my goodness, I just had such a great time with these characters. Nessilka is exasperated with her underlings for about 98% of the story. The underlings all have distinctly eccentric characteristics. With Nine Goblins, I simply got to smile and chuckle for a few hours, and that is a gift.
Rated: Mild. Profanity includes a few instances of moderate profanity, a few uses of mild language, and two uses of British (bl-) profanity. Some violence: injuries, mentions of deaths, but mild. Not gruesome.
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