Goblin Moon [Paperback]

Teresa Edgerton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ace (February 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441294278
• ISBN-13: 978-0441294275
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,415,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy and the Age of Reason - Completely Compatible, November 29, 1999

By 

Emily Snyder - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goblin Moon (Paperback)

Theresa Edgerton, I will state right now, is one of my absolutely favourite fantasy authors in the genre today. Within the space of a few hundred pages, she transports us to a world both foreign and familiar, introduces a cast Dickens would envy, and completes a novel that *might* relinquish the reader's attention given the space of a month. While publishers are constantly "upping" the cost and the length (and the dullness) of their new lines, Theresa Edgerton is an excellent foil - slashing through the cliche bilge and shining through the benighted press. Her stories have the added quality of "rereadableness" - for they rest on limited omniscience rather than surprise.

In "Goblin Moon," the first book in a duology, Ms. Edgerton creates a world based on eighteenth century Europe, replete with evil duchesses and dashing masqueraders, husband-catchers and Faust mirrors, Guilds of gnomes and dwarves and covens of goblins. Although readers of her other series (The Green Lion Trilogy, and its sister Trilogy - both set in a para-Celtic land) might find the abrupt change in world surprising, yet the first few chapters will certainly convince them to continue reading. Students of this particular era (who suffered through Locke and have been looking for a means of putting such non-knowledge to use) will find her world-building especially delightful, from the Fates to the sheep-drawn carriages.

Beware, though. Ms. Edgerton's novels are notoriously difficult to find, but more than worth the agony of waiting.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, July 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Goblin Moon (Paperback)

Goblin Moon is set in a quasi-Victorian time. There are several different species, such as gnomes, blood-sucking trolls, hobgoblins and, of course, humans. The main heroine, Seramarias Vorder, is an appropriately intelligent and resourceful young woman in a rather false society. However, the hero, the elusive Lord Francis Skelbrooke, steals the show. A perfect gentlemen, laced and powdered to perfection...armed to the teeth and with the deplorable habit of shooting enemies at point blank range.

Together, Sera and Lord Skelbrooke must find out exactly what the mysterious and bewitching Duchess and her suave minion Jarl Skogsra are plotting.

Full of intrigue, ironic humor, the stylized world of the Victorians, and a touch of romance, Goblin Moon is an enchanting read. It is well worth the time and effort to locate a copy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Scarlet Pimpernel. Only better., November 13, 2011

By 

Emily C. Snyder - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Goblin Moon (Mask & Dagger) (Kindle Edition)

Teresa Edgerton, I will state right now, is one of my absolutely favourite fantasy authors in the genre today. Within the space of a few hundred pages, she transports us to a world both foreign and familiar, introduces a cast Dickens would envy, and completes a novel that *might* relinquish the reader's attention given the space of a month. While publishers are constantly "upping" the cost and the length (and the dullness) of their new lines, Teresa Edgerton is an excellent foil - slashing through the cliche bilge and shining through the benighted press. Her stories have the added quality of "rereadableness" - for they rest on limited omniscience rather than surprise.

In "Goblin Moon," the first book in a duology, Ms. Edgerton creates a world based on eighteenth century Europe, replete with evil duchesses and dashing masqueraders, husband-catchers and Faust mirrors, Guilds of gnomes and dwarves and covens of goblins. Although readers of her other series (The Green Lion Trilogy, and its sister Trilogy - both set in a para-Celtic land) might find the abrupt change in world surprising, yet the first few chapters will certainly convince them to continue reading. Students of this particular era (who suffered through Locke and have been looking for a means of putting such non-knowledge to use) will find her world-building especially delightful, from the Fates to the sheep-drawn carriages.

Happily, Ms. Edgerton has reissued her excellent Mask and Dagger duology, opening another generation to the charms and danger of Lord Francis Love Skelbrooke...who's just like the Scarlet Pimpernel. Only better.