The Goblin Corps

The Few, the Proud, the Obscene

By: Ari Marmell

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Welcome to the Goblin Corps. May the best man lose.

Morthûl, the dreaded Charnel King, has failed. Centuries of plotting from the heart of the Iron Keep, deep within the dark lands of Kirol Syrreth—all for naught. Foiled at the last by the bumbling efforts of a laughable band of so-called heroes. Still, after uncounted centuries of survival, the Dark Lord isn’t about to go down without a fight, particularly in battle against a mortal! No, the Charnel King still has a few tricks up his putrid and tattered sleeves, and the only thing that can defeat him now may just be the inhuman soldiers on whom he’s pinned his last hopes.

©2011 Ari Marmell (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

Absolutely loved it.

The characters were entertaining and the story kept me interested. The narrator did amazing on changing up voices and it seemed as if they had fun with the read as well.

The Antihero’s Journey

This book was a lot of fun.

Pros: Has a great time playing with genre tropes, funny, tongue-in-cheek

Cons: Very episodic (clearly a novelization of a D&D campaign), some fairly gruesome and grim moments (nothing compared to George RR Martin, though)

The narration was pretty good, though I did not care for the constant slurping of the troll’s voice. The narrator is also a pretty slow reader, I listened to it on 1.2x speed.

rushed ending

everything was good mostly all the way up into the end where they just kind of sped through the stuff and lot of open ends just happened try not spoil it but they kind of just stop and excuse characters out of it and then skip ahead and then it just seemed like they're should have been a lot more towards the end it is very disappointing main characters that just got written out right at the end and explained away after the fact without revealing what happened to them during or how they had any part in what was going on just oh they're dead now. the whole entire section of the story seems gone and it would have been where the climax should have been.

Good fun

Enjoyable book character interactions were awesome. Great to get a book from what’s viewed as the villains side of things.

Fantastic Dark Fantasy Fun!

Absolutely loved the book and the performance! Can’t wait to listen to it again. All of the characters are well written and really bring the whole story together. DnD enthusiasts will have a great time!