The Princess and the Goblin

An old, yet completely new-to-me story of a lonely princess, her mysterious grandmother, her (largely) absent father, a young miner boy, and lots and lots and lots of scary goblins. (Turns out—and this isn't giving anything away—goblins, though quite dangerous and scary, hate rhyme and have very sensitive feet).


I went into this expecting something of a fairy tale, but the story went on and on for an additional hundred pages. Lots of nice surprises, but I wish it had been a bit shorter read.