I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the author, Molly Ringle, and the publisher, Central Avenue Publishing, for this opportunity. 
 This novel is based on Christina Rossetti's infamous poem, Goblin Market. The original is nebulous, haunting, and Gothic in nature, and has remained my favourite poem for many years. I was both excited and hesitant to see how a modern-day retelling would measure up. 
 I felt that Ringle brilliantly recreated the mingling of whimsy and dark, haunting beauty that made the original poem as renowned and continually loved as it is. I also felt that the cover expertly recreated this feeling into a visual format. 
 The tale initially featured goblins, like the original, and as such, much of the whimsy I was expecting. This quickly, however, transgressed into a love story that I wasn't as keen to focus on and didn't find wholly believable. 
 The goblins that have made their home in the woods, surrounding the small town of Bellwater, Washington, have also overtaken the life of local mechanic, Kit. As the human liaison for the secret goblin tribe, he provides them with treasures and gold to keep the occupied and out of mischief. This strain on both his finances and his guilt threatens to overwhelm him and one fateful week he is late with his expected payment. In retribution, the devious goblins decide to curse the next human to traverse their woods after sundown. 
 Skye, always at home in the dappled sunlight of the woods becomes, overnight it seems, silent and depressed. Livy can't fathom the sudden alteration in her normally sunny sister. Skye falls deeper into herself and her inability to speak of her woodland encounters threatens to drive her to madness. Will Kit make the connection in time? Or will his visiting cousin, Grady, be the knight in shining armour that will free her from her demons? 
 Whilst the goblins' presence and the curse they put on poor Skye were intriguing, the rest of the plot became less so, after these events. What was initially a fantastical and fairytale-esque story, turned into a typical love story for much of the narrative. 
 The dual relationships that transpired didn't stand out for me, in any way, and I didn't really care about their feelings for each other, because of this. They also, curse or no curse, fell into recreating the dreaded insta-love trope! Reasons were given for their immediate attraction but it still didn't allow me, as the reader, to care for emotions that were only created days ago! 
 I also struggled with reading of Skye's curse-created depression. The topic was handled sensitively but something also jarred with me, when reading it. I don't mean to call the author out for misrepresentation and am just, perhaps, overly sensitive when reading of characters who suffer from mental illness. It seemed the term 'depression' was continually used for her ailment long after I still needed to keep seeing the word. I can't quite place exactly why it bothered me, but it did. 
 If not for the middle, romance-heavy section, I would have loved this book as the ending provided the same dark atmospheric quality I so loved from the beginning. I was expecting a larger focus on the fantastical elements of the plot, throughout, and instead this was just used to frame a contemporary romance. Not bad, just not for me.