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    Nine Goblins
    Nine Goblins
    Nine Goblins
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    Nine Goblins

    By T. Kingfisher

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    Nessilka had been in any number of battles, and she couldn’t remember the first ten minutes of any of them.

    She had a theory that if you could remember the first ten minutes, you’d never, ever charge at anybody again, so parts of your brain blotted them out.

    The problem was that she couldn’t imagine why her brain would want her to continue charging at people, and this then led her to the theory that parts of her brain worked for the Goblin High Command, which she didn’t like at all.

    Regardless, it was ten minutes into the battle, and she couldn’t remember what had just happened. There’d been a lot of yelling. Everyone yelled. No matter what species you were, elf, human, goblin, orc, random bystander, you yelled. There had been a lot of hitting things. Her shield was bent in four or five places, and her arms ached dreadfully.

    Algol went by at high speed, shield raised, with Mishkin and Mushkin practically stepping on his heels. Mishkin had gotten a sword from somewhere, and was waving it dangerously close to Algol’s kidneys.
    She had no idea how the battle was going, but she didn’t seem to be dead, so from her perspective, everything was really going rather well.
    Unfortunately, Sergeant Nessilka had just seen a problem.

    The problem stood on a little rise, just enough to lift him out of the battle proper. He looked human, and he wasn’t wearing armor, or carrying any weapons.

    He was doing something with his hands, and there was a blueness in the air around him—not really a blue light, per se, but the world around him was turning shades of blue, like something behind a pane of cobalt glass. That wasn’t right. That was magic, that was.

    A bolt of blueness streaked out from his open mouth, and hit a knot of goblins, who fell down.

    Aw, hell, Nessilka thought. It’s a wizard...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT Kingfisher
    Release dateOct 28, 2013
    ISBN9781310505768
    Nine Goblins
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    T. Kingfisher

    T. Kingfisher is the adult fiction pseudonym of Ursula Vernon, the multi-award-winning author of Digger and Dragonbreath. She is an author and illustrator based in North Carolina who has been nominated for the Ursa Major Award, the Eisner Awards, and has won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for “Jackalope Wives” in 2015 and the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “the Tomato Thief” in 2017. Her debut adult horror novel, The Twisted Ones, won the 2020 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel, and was followed by the critically acclaimed The Hollow Places.

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    • 5/5
      Loved it, fun, engaging and a bit misterios. An easy and very pleasant read.
    • 5/5
      I think this was an adorable adventure to go on. Nice light fluffy reading.
    • 5/5
      Fabulous little story, filled with characters you’d really like to know. Wish it was longer.
    • 5/5
      Delightful, odd book. T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) is rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors. Her novels remind me a little of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and that’s a high compliment.
    • 5/5
      Utterly delightful and deeply unexpected! Somehow lighthearted while talking about a people being pushed out of their homeland, makes you snicker at and feel sorry for the elf who gets too close to a unicorn.
    • 5/5
      Another wonderful T Kingfisher book! Great characters, a good story, and a great view on the world that reminds me a bit of Sir Terry Pratchett.

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