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Exagge Since: Nov, 2011
2015-09-23 03:52:59

On a side note, the reason the humans discovered the magical world is because the half-goblin guy is immune to AIDS. That's not a sentence I thought I'd ever write, but there you go.

xReddifx Since: Sep, 2015
2015-09-23 22:22:08

This seems the most like you described: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/GriffinsDaughter

I didn't see anything about the goblin who was immune to AIDS or the shape-shifting children, so maybe you mixed two stories up? It tends to happen a lot :/

Exagge Since: Nov, 2011
2015-09-24 22:58:02

Nope, I already checked that one earlier. Griffin's Daughter is definitely not it.

The human parts takes place in modern times (or at least the 80s), for one. Also, the cover is completely different, though that's a minor observation.

I don't think I'm mixing two stories up because everything was tied together in one way or another. F'ex, the goblin revolt? Established in the very first chapter, when it's mentioned that the MC's husband's family was horrifically murdered just before the story begins and their goblin security detail was nowhere to be found afterwards. The bodyguard assigned to the MC? Turns out he's the former goblin king, but he was overthrown in a coup d'etat around the same time.

I distinctly remember that the blurb on the back of the book was about the shapeshifting kids, even though the book turned out to be more about setting up the goblin revolt thing. It's the reason I read the book in the first place, because I was sick of Chosen One farm boy fantasy stories.

The kids turned out to be really important, as at the end of the book, the mermaid child saves the fairy world because the siren song can jam radiowaves or something, while the elf woman *finally* has a normal elf kid with the half-goblin because it turns out elves can't have true elf children. Because that's logical. But nonetheless, the fact that every elf is basically half-elf was supposed to be a huge plot twist.

Dunno if this helps, but I think it might have been written in 2006 or 1996. I remember looking it up when freaking AIDS became a plot point, because it seemed such a dated thing to do.

It's sad how I remember almost everything about this book, except for the damned title. It's also sad how many times I've edited this reply so far.

Edited by Exagge
Exagge Since: Nov, 2011
Exagge Since: Nov, 2011
2015-10-05 02:37:08

Another bump. Surely with all this info, someone knows what I'm on about.

Exagge Since: Nov, 2011
2015-10-15 03:20:01

Final bump before I let this query fall into the ether.

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