Great book! Who would of thought of a stuttering middle-aged librarian who became an adventurer actually being a great person to be reading about? Talk about a midlife crisis! The story flows very well and really gets a hold on you, not letting you stop reading until the very end. The time Edmund spends in the Goblin kingdom is harrowing and to be honest is the heart of the story. The decisions he has to make and the abuses he has to endure as well as see are intense. I found myself making the decisions right along with him and being vindicated in my decisions as soon as he made them. That to me is really good writing when you suck me in that deep. Then of course the e-version has a sample chapter of book two in the series which just whetted my appetite for the continuing volume, that is like torture since I don't have it yet!