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    The Goblins of Bellwater

    By Molly Ringle

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    Most people have no idea goblins live in the woods around the small town of Bellwater, Washington. But some are about to find out.

    Skye, a young barista and artist, falls victim to a goblin curse in the forest one winter night, rendering her depressed and silenced, unable to speak of what happened. Her older sister, Livy, is at wit’s end trying to understand what’s wrong with her. Local mechanic Kit would know, but he doesn’t talk of such things: he’s the human liaison for the goblin tribe, a job he keeps secret and never wanted, thrust on him by an ancient family contract.

    Unaware of what’s happened to Skye, Kit starts dating Livy, trying to keep it casual to protect her from the attention of the goblins. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Kit, Skye draws his cousin Grady into the spell through an enchanted kiss in the woods, dooming Grady and Skye both to become goblins and disappear from humankind forever.

    It’s a midwinter night’s enchantment as Livy, the only one untainted by a spell, sets out to save them on a dangerous magical path of her own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentral Avenue Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 2017
    ISBN9781771681186
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    The Goblins of Bellwater
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    Molly Ringle

    Molly Ringle was one of the quiet, weird kids in school, and is now one of the quiet, weird writers of the world. She likes thinking up innovative romantic obstacles and mixing them with topics like Greek mythology, ghost stories, fairy tales, or regular-world scandalous gossip. She's into mild rainy climates, gardens, '80s new wave music, chocolate, tea, and perfume (or really anything that smells good). She has lived in the Pacific Northwest most of her life, aside from grad school in California and one work-abroad season in Edinburgh in the 1990s. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband, kids, guinea pigs, corgi, and a lot of moss.

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    • 5/5
      TW: Fire, Depression, Sexual Assault, PTSDThe Synopsis on Goodreads is spot on and I don't really know any other way to say it. Goblins, Fae, Romance and Magic.It started off slow but even from the very beginning I was interested and enjoying it. The first 1/2 I wanted to keep reading and was intrigued, but in no rush, then the second half really picked up the pace and intrigue and I couldn't put it down! I read the first 1/2 in 2 days, the second 1/2 in one and stayed up too late doing so! There was one thing I predicted but only maybe a couple pages in advance, and I still loved it!The writing was very readable. I don't necessarily think it's the best writing but I personally enjoyed it. I loved the characters! I don't think I can pick a favorite character, I just loved them all! Kit has had it so rough with the curse on his family and he's truly caring of others, and an artist with a chainsaw (sculptures). Livy is smart, a scientist, strong and also very caring. Grady is a wonderful chef and Skye is also an artist (without a chainsaw) who sketches and makes art in peoples coffee as a barista. Truly they are all caring people with their own things going on.I enjoyed the world-building, it's set in washington (the state) but in a fictional town and while the real world is in there, so is fairies, goblins and magic! I truly enjoyed the atmosphere of the place.The TW for fire (I was in a house fire 5 years ago and have PTSD from it) is something I wouldn't have been able to get through 5 years ago, so I mention it for anyone else who needs the TW. If you want to brace yourself for it, it's after water (that'll make sense in the book). About the 75% mark. I had to stop a couple times while reading it even still. However i'm really glad I read I this book and continued on with it! I have nothing against it of course, it's just trauma event=ptsd=trigger warnings for well-being.The PTSD I mention isn't stated directly as PTSD in the book but to myself, someone with PTSD, it was plainly obvious and felt very real to my own experiences with it, with nightmares in particular. I would have had a hard time believing it if some trauma wasn't experienced after all that, but there was and for me personally I thought it was well done for what it was.If an entertaining fantasy read with evil goblins, some good fae, romance, curses and magic, that is pretty light and fast to read with a bit of depth (but not too much) sprinkled in sounds interesting to you i'd definitely recommend checking it out! Some things below I wanted to talk about but may be considered spoilers.*minor spoilers*There is a thing with 9 fingers in the book, and I have 9 fingers, and I really enjoyed it! Of course it's nothing like my real life situation but I loved the way it was handled after the fact! No one made a big deal of it but of course they had to get used to it. I was born with a hypoplastic left thumb, and had a pollicization surgery (moved index finger to thumb spot) when I was 2 almost 3 years old. I was too young to remember the surgery but I do remember having to learn how to do things with my new hand. Since I was still a tot I had learned some motor skills but not all of them, so while it took some practice it wasn't too hard. I felt them getting used to it afterwards was very realistic in my own experience.I can understand why some people have issues with the relationship between Grady and Skye but the awkwardness and stuff from the curse is mentioned and dealt with. Perhaps too neatly for some or not delved into enough but personally I loved it. It was a light fun read for me that I squeed a lot over!
    • 3/5
      More romance and sex than I would usually like in a book, but very good fairy story! (and by good I of course mean creepy and full of trickster fae) Enjoyed the writing and vivid descriptions of nature. My library had this under Young Adult but really it's more of a New Adult book.
    • 4/5
      Thank you to Molly Ringle, Central Avenue Publishing, and NetGalley for allowing me the extreme pleasure of access to an advanced reader copy of “The Goblins of Bellwater” for an honest review.

      From the first selling line of this being an eerie retelling of Christina Rosetti's haunting "Goblin Market," a favorite since my high school years, I knew that I had to review this new novelization written to it. I didn't quite know what to expect from this novel or its unknown (to me) novelist, but I can say that it was sharp, tight, quick=paced and deliciously dark. How could it not be after it's bread and butter beginnings in the world of Goblins, and Little Girls Seduced to the Sweetness of the Darkness?

      The love story is a little fast all around (and heavily more based in the romance than the seductive darkness of Rosetti's Intentions on that; at least not in the way she'd done it, if it were to be), but I deeply appreciated that consequences were not all wiped off and whisked away, with the girls at the end of the story. That there were costs that had to be paid and tears the reader had to shed in having touched the lives that touched the darkness. I wish we had gotten a little more than we did on the background and world of the goblin's themselves.
    • 4/5
      Curses, goblins, and romance, Oh my! The Goblins of Bellwater may have been inspired by the poem “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti but it definitely has its own creative flair. Skye Darwen and her sister Livy Darwen had plenty of whimsy and creativity when they were children. Skye being a young adult still held on to some of her childhood whimsy of fairy tale folk skirting around in the woods near her home in Bellwater, Washington located in the Puget Sound. I really enjoyed the setting for this fantasy.One day while finishing up her shift at the Green Fox Espresso, Skye decided to take a break and go for a short walk in the woods. While walking in the woods she found a small path where she was sure no path had been there before. Deciding to take the path was one of the worst choices she could ever make as it was the beginning of her downward spiral into destruction. After her unfortunate incident in the woods Skye makes a desperate attempt to escape her fate and chooses an unlikely victim.Livy Darwen was an environment scientist who was very in tune with nature and all its elements. She appreciated everything that nature had to offer and working for the Forest Services she dedicated her life to keeping the natural world as protected as possible. She had grown up in Bellwater and continued to stay in town with her sister Skye. For reasons unknown to her, Livy’s sister, Skye, had recently taken ill and no one could figure out what was ailing her. Although, there was one person who knew the truth of what could be ailing Skye but he had never before shared his secrets.Kit Sylvain was an only child and had grown up in Bellwater. He was a few years younger than Livy and had always took notice of her. Kit though was unwilling to enter into any kind of relationships other than the occasional tryst with a tourist. He could not have a stable relationship with anyone because he had secrets. Kit was a goblin liaison. A curse that his long dead ancestor agreed to and was in place for a thousand years, crossing generations. He absolutely hated the goblins but if he did not meet his “contractual obligations” then the goblins would make him pay. Usually in the form of hurting people in his hometown.From the time Kit had taken on the duties of the goblin liaison after his parents died, he had tried his best to look for signs of goblin mischief with the town residents. When he started dating Livy and heard what her sister Skye was going through, there is a little voice in the back of his mind that made him think that maybe Skye somehow ran into the goblins but he wasn’t sure. Being a goblin liaison made him pretty paranoid and he couldn’t just go assuming that every case of depression was because of the goblins. Until one day when he was confronted with insurmountable proof that Skye was in serious danger and so was his cousin Grady who had recently taken on a cooking job for Livy.For Kit, Livy, Skye, and Grady it becomes a race against time as they do everything in their power to put an end to the curse that is affecting both Skye and Grady before it becomes too late. Kit’s frustration with his inability to control the goblins meddling ways will push him to make some rash choices. For Livy, she must walk a difficult path where she will be tested in ways that she never dreamed possible and even then, it may be too late to save her sister.The Goblins of Bellwater was an enjoyable read. There were parts that did not work for me, like the romance – just not that believable. I did not feel that the insta-love going on was based on anything genuine. I did not really connect with anyone of the characters, well except for Flowerwatch, her I loved. I did get a creepy vibe from the goblins in this story. They definitely had that eerily whimsical feeling about them. Overall, this book was very creative, grabbed my attention from the start and did not let go!This review is based on a complimentary book I received from NetGalley. It is an honest and voluntary review. The complimentary receipt of it in no way affected my review or rating.
    • 4/5
      The first half of the book moved very slowly; several times I caught myself skimming a paragraph or two at a time to just move forward. Then just after the 50% mark it felt like it really picked up, then it was super rushed! The story in general was interesting and often believable.
    • 5/5
      ***This book was reviewed for Central Ave Publishing via NetgalleyThe Goblins of Bellwater is a bewitching tale of curses, enchantment, and the power of the unseen. In the woods around Bellwater, Washington, a tribe of mischievous goblins dwell. So long as their human liaison, Kit, brings them a tithing of gold each month, they will (mostly) behave. But if the tithe is late… Skye is caught by the goblins one evening, after Kit is short with his monthly allotment. Forced to eat of goblin food, she is destined to grow more withdrawn from human society, eventually returning to the forest to choose a mate and join the goblin tribe as their newest member. Skye cannot speak of her trauma, thanks to the goblins’ curse. In a desperate attempt to thumb her nose at the goblins, she chooses as a mate one most unexpected. That choice may just be the key to her salvation. I enjoyed the amoral nature of the goblins. They didn't strike me as truly evil, even when malicious. They simply lived out the dictates of their species. It was interesting that, despite a sexual nature, goblins increased the tribe by transforming people. There didn't seem to be baby goblins. These goblins are an 'invasive species’ not native to the state, nor even the continent. They followed Kit’s ancestor to North America. The local faefolk of Washington do not like these interlopers, who are so like the humans that desecrate the area with trash, but they are constrained by laws of magick that limit how and when they can intercede. Skye’s curse opens the ideal opportunity, but are her sister Livy, and the liaison Kit up to facing the goblins?I loved that the nature spirits of the Americas are called fae too. That's how I've always treated mythic beings of any culture that do not fit another specific category, like 'dragons’ or 'vampires’. There are behaviours and traits that sing 'fae’ no matter the continent. I enjoyed that much of this story involved Skye and Grady struggling with themselves. To be cursed and unable to speak of it as you fight against changes to turn into a goblin, I could feel their terror and frustration. And the bitter pill Kit must swallow serving the goblin tribe against his will. There is a strong elemental theme running through the novel. The four base elements of alchemy and magick- Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Quintessence, the fifth element of Spirit, is never directly mentioned, but I saw it in the transformation of Skye and Grady back to humans, and the goblins to other fae. Livy must travel through the elemental realms to reach the goblin village, allowing the fae to follow behind her. She traversed the paths, progressing through her own internal transformation, and paving the way for the transformation of the others.I didn't see the goblins as 'evil’. More that they simply lived the dictates of their species. I really liked them, truth be told. They are completely honest in what they are. I found them rather refreshing.I can't rave about the cover enough, either! It's beautiful in its simplicity. The cover is what drew me in first, prompting me to read the blurb.?????
    • 4/5
      I received an arc from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Skye and her older sister Livy have lived in Bellwater, Washington all their lives, growing up telling stories to each other of encountering the "Teeny-tinies" that dwell in the forests. While the sisters believe these to be the product of youthful imaginations, Kit, the human liaison for the goblins, knows the truth about the cunning creatures. The fae of Skye and Livy's childhood are not the benevolent creatures they once thought, and Skye finds herself coerced by their malignant magic. Cursed and rendered nearly mute, Skye struggles to resist the goblin compulsion to turn to the woods, even as she drags Kit's unsuspecting cousin Grady into the same spell that threatens to rob her of her humanity.The Goblins of Bellwater was a much headier romance than I was expecting, with characters falling for each other left and right, but the moody atmosphere and nods to Rossetti's classic haunting poem "Goblin Market" were memorable. What begins as a standard steamy romance (with the exception of an early goblin cameo), morphs into something more chilling as the narrative progresses. Ringle's version of a magic-infused Pacific Northwest is intoxicating and provides a rich backdrop for an atypical contemporary love story. The opening chapters felt a touch too "contemporary romance" for what The Goblins of Bellwater seems to be advertising, but by the time the action fully unfolded I was completely enveloped by the story. An enchanting, sexy, satisfying read.