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A review by si0bhan
Goblin Fruit by Laini Taylor
4.0
I found Lips Touch at a crazy cheap price and jumped on the short story collection, desperate to get my fill of Laini Taylor’s beautiful work. Goblin Fruit is the first short story of the three in the collection, and if I’m honest it’s my favourite of the three even if it’s the shortest.
As you would expect from Laini Taylor, even though it’s a short story, we’re quickly thrown into some wonderful world building with her lyrical prose bringing her amazing imagination to life in no time at all. I’d been fearful we would not get the full works because it is such a short story but I couldn’t have been any further from the truth. So much happens in so few pages. We’re given an entire story, we’re given characters we can love, we’re given mythology, we’re given emotion – in short, we’re given it all.
The only downside for me, preventing it from being a five star short story (hell, that’s a massive achievement as I have yet to find a short story worthy of five stars in my personal opinion) was that I wanted more from the ending. I loved the way it ended, I understood why it ended where it did, yet I couldn’t help but want more details about what came next.
A wonderful read and I’d be more than happy if we were given a full-length novel based upon this notion.
As you would expect from Laini Taylor, even though it’s a short story, we’re quickly thrown into some wonderful world building with her lyrical prose bringing her amazing imagination to life in no time at all. I’d been fearful we would not get the full works because it is such a short story but I couldn’t have been any further from the truth. So much happens in so few pages. We’re given an entire story, we’re given characters we can love, we’re given mythology, we’re given emotion – in short, we’re given it all.
The only downside for me, preventing it from being a five star short story (hell, that’s a massive achievement as I have yet to find a short story worthy of five stars in my personal opinion) was that I wanted more from the ending. I loved the way it ended, I understood why it ended where it did, yet I couldn’t help but want more details about what came next.
A wonderful read and I’d be more than happy if we were given a full-length novel based upon this notion.