Believing herself to be in a dream, Alex finds herself in the Goblin world.  Surrounded by strange creatures, she is told she must go to see Crick, the Goblin King immediately as he won’t feed them unless she does.  Alex finds herself stripped of her clothing and when she reaches him, she finds an extremely gorgeous man. However, she must be punished for taking her sweet time before arriving – what does he have in mind?

The Goblin King is only twenty-four pages long thus it is very short on character and story development.  Alex and Crick’s relationship certainly sizzles on the physical level.  Their scenes together are filled with eroticism.  We know very little of Crick and Alex, other than their sexual compatibility, and the author leaves us wanting more information about them – what happened before they met and what happens after -- we are left with unanswered questions.   The Goblin King was a short but tantalizing read.  It gives the reader a glimpse of the Goblin world and this reader hopes Ms. Renn will expand it more in a later book.

Reviewed by Susan Tam for The Road to Romance

August 25, 2005