Kaytee Cobb

I have read one other by her.

She is quite beloved overall.

And Meredith, of course, has brought three different titles from her body of work as current reads.

So you can use our fantastic website search to look for those books if you are interested in more from this author.

This one is Lighthearted Low Fantasy.

Heavy on the mischief, heavy on the found family friendliness.

So it is different from some of her horror, her, you know, kind of body grossness that we see in some of these other books or the high fantasy that I've read from her before because I read A Sorceress Comes to Call.

In this one, we're focused on nine goblins per the title.

They're part of a troop that is serving in the capital G, capital W Goblin War.

This war has been going on for so long that nobody really remembers how it started, and yet we persist.

This troop of nine goblins is accurate to every goblin stereotype, the ones you already know.

Everyone knows they're awful in every way.

They're smelly.

they're conniving they're thieving they're belching they're obnoxious because they're goblins that's who they are they're being true to themselves but when this group accidentally meets up with an evil wizard the result of which is waking up poof in enemy territory deep behind enemy lines now they have to find their way out their sergeant nasilka has to figure out how to get her lazy cowardly

stinky slinking troop home without further incident.

They must work together using every cell of the very few brains at their disposal to defeat monsters, trolls, and even the most perilous of all human beings that stand in the way of their safety.

This was so fun.

It was like a little romp, a little treat at the end of a harder book.

I picked it up at a bookstore in Tucson after the Tucson Festival of Books in March because the cover is charmingly drawn.

This is definitely a lighter fantasy novel than some of the others you've heard about from this author.