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** spoiler alert ** An enjoyable enough story, but one that really only became captivating towards the very end. Until then, it felt repetitive and forced. Whenever the "goblins" came up (and they come up a LOT), Koontz would derail whatever plot was happening and spend at least half a page waxing about how disgusting, ugly, and evil they were. By the third or fourth time this happened, I had a pretty good construction of the goblins in my own head, and he could have spared me the constant descriptions.

Usually, I'm a fan of the tropes in this sort of book, but they all felt manufactured and insincere here. Joel Tuck being SO UGLY but SO NICE, Raya being amazing but cut off from love, it was all a bit much. Although again, it did redeem itself a bit at the end. The bit where the goblin tells Slim that humans bear the evil and responsibility as the creators of goblins was well done.