{"id":15718,"date":"2010-07-19T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15718"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:06","slug":"jackson-rob-goblin-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15718","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Rob – Goblin Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love that cover.\u00c2\u00a0 You probably have an instant reaction to it, and you’re probably more than a little off in that reaction.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of a Count who comes back to his estate after being gone for five years.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a fairly typical Count, just looking to marry off his son to the daughter of a wealthy family and finally getting some time at home after being gone for so long.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, his son has met someone else while the Count was away and he plans on marrying this woman.\u00c2\u00a0 This woman is a mystery, as are the whereabouts of his son during the daylight hours, so he follows his son, meets this girl and is impressed.\u00c2\u00a0 Sadly for him, he had a cup of wine while meeting this woman, didn’t realize she was related to goblins (the fairy tale kind of goblins, not the Tolkien kind), and ends up drugged in a field for a month (although it seemed to him like only a short time had passed), and he misses the wedding.\u00c2\u00a0 This causes the Count to get enraged and recruit a posse of mercenaries to take care of these goblins, and it’s here that things start to get awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 So, naturally, this is the point where I stop telling you the story.\u00c2\u00a0 I will say that from here things go in all sorts of directions you wouldn’t expect, and Rob’s ability to bring out the quiet human elements in a huge battle are impressive.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed a moment when the Count meets a friend on the battlefield and begs the guy not to fight him, as he saved the Count’s life in the past, and after the Count gets the better of the guy he drags him off the battlefield and out of harm’s way.\u00c2\u00a0 This is also self-contained, so no worries about wondering whether or not Rob is ever going to put out another issue (although he’s prolific enough that he’s more than earned the benefit of the doubt).\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and as for the sample, the rest of the book is s good bit chattier than this page, but I couldn’t resist using the image of the goblin parade.\u00c2\u00a0 If you hate all this fantastical I guess you could stay away, but this is really more about how humanity deals with the unknown than anything else, and the results aren’t always pretty.\u00c2\u00a0 $6ish<\/p>\n

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