Very enjoyable. The heroine, Makenna, is competent and kickass. Not much romance, but I appreciate the building of Makenna and Tobin's genuine respect for each other much more than insta-romance. I really like the goblins and their loyalty to Makenna.
In what turned out to be an addicting fantasy novel, Hilari Bell shows love and compassion for goblins, a race often seen in a negative light in fantasy novels.Betrayed by her own human race, Makenna, a young hedgewitch, flees her village after her mother's execution and finds herself in the company...
Review taken from my blog, The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia.First Sentence:Makenna had to stretch onto her toes to reach the small stone lamp, for the shelf that held it was higher than a grown woman's head, and she was only eleven.The Goblin Wood had been sitting on my TBR pile for maybe two months...