The fact that it took me 3 months to complete 6 novellas should tell you how I felt about this book. (The answer is “not great”).

This was an impulse buy last year because I’ve enjoyed other Malerman stories and the idea of multiple novellas telling a unifying story sounded really cool — and that idea still is cool. However, I had a hard time immersing myself in Goblin. 

The writing style didn’t work for me. I found myself skimming pages in the last two stories and I never do that  I almost couldn’t remember certain figures or events in Goblin’s history so I felt mildly confused half of the time. 

Solely as novellas, I enjoyed the first 3 stories quite a bit. But overall this book was a miss.