A review by sbelasco40
Goblin Secrets by William Alexander

3.0

This is surely a strange book. It won the National Book Award for YA and I'm always curious about who wins this prize, especially since the YA choices tend to be considerably more adventurous than those in literary fiction. I liked certain things about it - the steampunk/fantasy aesthetic, the world-building - but the characters were not that interesting to me, nor very well-developed. Also for being a book structured like a play (divided into acts and scenes) the action seemed weirdly flat, like everything was narrated with the same level of interest.