Great story

Colourful story, and beautifully narrated. Listened whilst eyes closed which made the characters come too life. Great narration

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A Very Dark Fantasy Story

I enjoyed this first book in the series. The idea seemed novel, with focus on Goblins rather than Humans. I liked the characters, and especially Spicy. The Dark part of this fantasy comes from the death of a number of characters close to Spicy. The only weakness I found in the story is that I did not feel particularly sad at the loss of these characters...I think it is because they did not seem to particularly affect Spicy. I also did not particularly despise the villains. To really get to the Love It stage of a review, I need to feel connected to the same things the main character is connected to. Outside of this minor complaint, the story was original, fast-paced, and kept me interested. I am looking forward to the rest of the series.

The narrator does a good job and seems to well suited for this series. I don't know why we Americans seem to associate British voices with fantasy, but his fits perfectly.

I was given a free copy of this audiobook at my request, with no requirement that I leave a review, but I feel this story deserves recognition, so have left this review.

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KAZ🇬🇧❤️😃 WOW 😳 AWESOME 😎📖

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING😍 This story has everything I love 🖤 from magical creature's like Goblin's Elves Dragon's 🐉 Troll's+ so much more it's just fantastic 😍 Greedy Hunan's want access to magic & are killing of anything they think is in there way ( What's new about that lol 🤣) Village's of goblin's get wiped out but 1 called Spicey fight's & make's friend's with a troll he name's Hog 🤣a dragon join's them & go on an epic journey, honestly I can't reccommd this wonderful audiobook enough & I'm positive you won't be disappointed Great 👍 narration amazing 🤩 storyline & truly brilliant character's Now a HUGE FAN 💙 thank's to the writer & Audible 🤩 4+ out of 5 from me 😃🖤👍

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Needed to be more distinct, feel more Goblin-like

I want to like the story but felt like I was going through the motions of just listening to the chapters instead of enjoying them or looking forward to hearing more.

Gareth Richards voice choice for the MC was a bit too generic and didn't sound like a goblin. He had a good clarity but throughout the whole book he used very much the same tempo. This lead to the lack of excitement or any urgency. Also he struggled with conveying a believable female voice

Apart from the the book mentioning they were goblin a few times I could easily forget about that fact and the MC could be a young human. The MC didn't have much to like about him and didn't have much progression for me to care much about him or his actions. The side character were much the same. Nothing really drew me to any of them.

The most memorable part of the book was the interactions with the Troll. This was interesting, distinctive and had a whole different perspective on the world around them.

This was a bit too tame for my liking and probably aimed more towards very young adults as the violence, gore and action was very mild.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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