Goblin Story

A great little tale about goblins and their way of life!

This fiction's off to a pretty good start! I decided to write a review for this, since I found it strange that nobody else has done so.

Anyway, let's go!

Style(4.5★):

It's pretty simplistic, some may even call it clunky. There are also quite a bit of redundancy as a style choice.

It's not bad, though. Rather, I think the style suits a story about goblins really well.

Just imagine the narrator talking in a goblin-like voice, like I did, and you'll like it.

I took half a star off since others might not be like me. They might hate this kind of style.

Story (4.5★):

It's still pretty early on in the story to judge it too much, but in the few chapters I've read, it's been pretty solid so far.

I'm gonna give it a 4.5 for now, but this may improve in the future!

Grammar (5★):

Doesn't really take much to get a five for grammar from me. I pretty much understood everything, so all is well. There were a few minor errors, but none of them are big. Probably just cases of finger fumbling or words getting leftover from changing sentence structures.

As a fellow writer, I know this more than most people.

Character (5★):

This is a story about goblins. So naturally, most of the characters are goblins as well.

If you expect tons of emotional development from goblins, then I don't think you really know what the hell goblins are.

I didn't come here expecting those.

Still, traces of some emotional development is there. Eavh goblin has mini-story of its own.

Their names are also pretty simple, so they're easy to remember.

I remember laughing about how "a goblin picked up a helmet and put it on his head, so he became Helmet Goblin."

Anyway, I liked the little buggers. 5 stars.

Overall (4.5★):

The overall score, to me, isn't really the average of the above four ratings. It's a measure of my reading experience as a whole.

Reading this was really fun. Which would normally warrant me giving a five in the overall, but there were a few minor issues that I found prevented me from doing that.

First of all, this isn't really the only goblin fiction out there. The lack of an original concept isn't a big minus for me though. I'm the type of person who doesnt particularly hate cliches, since I'm aware that cliches are cliches because they work. They're entertaining.

Still, a small minus is still a minus.

Second, the irregular release schedule.

I don't wanna put pressure on the author. One should always prioritize your real life and responsibilities.

But still. It feels just a bit frustrating.

With those two very small minuses, I have to take half a star off from my Overall rating.

With all that said, Goblin Story is a solid Monster fic.

Just trust me on this. And don't forget about what I wrote about imagining the narrator's voice as a goblin-like voice, okay?

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