I picked this up because the cover and title caught my eye and hey, Kindle Unlimited means jumping in is free. This was a weird amount of fun.

It's relatively light, though the world-building there is interesting and it's short enough that more world-building world have been too much. In fact, there are a few places where we are fed larger chunks of what is going on all at once, which feels a bit awkward.

The soul of the story, though, is about the characters, and they are genuinely charming.

If you do not like modern language in your fantasy, definitely give this a pass, but I loved the use of it and the dialogue between the characters often made me chuckle.

“How are you whistling?” Aila asked after a few hours.
“I ’unno. Magic?” Anthony shrugged and then went on whistling.

“Are you a familiar knight?” Gunnar asked.
“I don’t know. Do I look familiar to you?” Anthony asked, perplexed.

A dark elf and a skeleton knight wandering around is interesting by itself, as far as I'm concerned, but I got rather attached to them and their shenanigans. The goblins are also bizarrely charming and I can't explain why.

I'll definitely be picking up the next book, and might stick my head in to the author's other series to see what they're like.