The book Princess and the Goblin is one of the books I really recommend to you.
Before I mention the story, I'll tell you a quick background story. Once upon a time, the kingdom was living well with humans and goblins. Back then,, goblins looked almost same as humans. For some reasons, the human king hated goblins and treated goblins like foul beasts. Then the goblins started living underworld without being interrupted by other humans. They never came out. People who saw goblins saw they are now horrifying.
They had no toes and fingers and their skin was greenish pale. They were strong and was mean and selfish. They had their own goblin king.
Now, there was a 8 years old princess on the human land called princess Irene. There was a mine worker called Peter and his son named Kurdy(Dunno if the spelling is right the book's Korean)
One day Irene was bored so she went to explore the castle. She found stairs and went up and got lost. She found a door and found an elegant and beautiful old granny.
She said she was her great grandmother. She went back to her room but nobody believed her tale of the great grandmother.
She tried to go up again but couldn't find it. She was going to a walk outside one day. She got lost again and met a goblin. She ran and escaped. She couldn't find a way to get back. She met Kurdy I explained before and he told goblins hate singing and don't run if she sees a goblin and sing songs with horrible lyrics.
Now it goes to Kurdy's point of view. He finds out goblins are planning to have princess Irene marry the goblin prince Heorip(Dunno real spelling either)and if not, they have a planB.
But he got caught eavesdropping goblin's conversation. He was trapped in a hole in the rocks.
Now it's Princess Irene's point of view again.
She again finds her great granny and she got a silver really thin thread and she said the thread will lead to her. But she must never ever doubt the thread.
1 day later she followed the thread and found herself following it to the mountains. She thought the word grandma said and kept followed it. It led to the rock Kurdy was in!!
When Irene rescued Kurdy, she told him about her granny and the thread but he won't believe it. He got mad and went home.
Later, the goblins poured into the castle to get princess Irene. Kurdy was working in the mines when he heard a rumbling sound. He remembered when he was eavesdropping, he heard a goblin saying to his son, "If you hear a great rumbling sound, it is us attacking the castle so you must follow the others". He reached there and got inside somehow. He told the soldiers that goblin's weakness is feet so they need to step on their feet.
There was plan B, the flood the goblins made with the mine's water but I will shorten this blog. If you want to know all, pls type the book title and buy it and read it on your own~^^
P.S. As all stories work, they became a happy ending~
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