Not bad. Grant has the characters down, but the whole thing has a rushed feeling about it. Some scenes could have been clearer, some characters more fully explored. FBI agent Andrews, in particular, made me go "huh?"

Having been a fan of the television series since it started back in the mid-1990s, it's strange that I never got to read a novel based on The X-Files until now - nearly 20 years later! This book is also the first Charles Grant novel I've ever read, which again seems strange that I've not read one before. I suppose there's a first time for everything and it doesn't really matter when it happens!As for the story itself, it wasn't bad but it wasn't exceptional either. It's written on the basis that...

There’s a folder on my hard drive— named “Apocrypha,” what else?— that, like maybe anyone who came of age on the internet at the same time, is full of X-Files fan fiction. Stories I’ve saved, stories I’ve written (like an ambitious/incomplete undertaking where I elaborated greatly on the canon of seasons 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, episode by episode), so there’s the understatement for you: that I’ve read and written, and still write and read, my share of X-Files fanfic. I may be able to speak with some

I wanted to really like this book, an X-Files story set during the heyday of the television series. Mulder and Scully at the top of their game, looking into another mysterious event. And while Charles Grant captured the essence of Mulder and Scully, as characters and people, the story fell flat as far as I was concerned. Grant is trying to do too much with this story. You have the obligatory mysterious killings taking place that some locals attribute to mythical "goblins". You have the obligator...

More official fanfic that I read before I ever discovered "real" fanfic. Gods, how I ever survived my childhood (do teenage years qualify as childhood? Because I think they do) without the internet I don't know. Also, gods, how I ever survived my twenties WITH the internet I don't know. Other things I don't know: what this book was about, if it featured Krycek and if he and Mulder got to make out while waiting for a UFO to lan in an alleyway. Though I'm guessing that none of this happened. Still...

I read half of this book and was so confused that I started all over from the beginning. There were so many (pointless) characters and so many convoluted plot points that I literally had to make a list of them all so I could follow the storyline.Since there are so many extraneous characters, the plot doesn't strictly follow just Mulder and Scully. In fact, initially Mulder is partnered with a different agent and sent on a totally different case, then after all the details of that are ironed out

I'm not sure why Grant picked up this and another piece of X-Files hack work Whirlwind. Maybe he needed to pay the mortgage or he just really liked the show. Hopefully he made a decent deal and did pay the mortgage since this particular copy I have is in the 22nd printing! Anyway, in my quest to read all things Grant, I dove into this one because I had it and it was the only thing around when I needed something to read.I don't believe this is a novelization of an episode per se but a novel inten...

This is the second The X-Files novel that i have read and must say that I found this one to be much better. Brief synopsis: An ex-sergeant and later a corporal is murdered and as usual the testimony provided by the witnesses does not make sense. Mulder and Scully, this time accompanied by another pair of agents are sent to investigate. There you have hints of covert military experiments, a nosy reporter trying to find the killer, a lady who claims to see goblins etc. - enough elements to create

Love the TV series. Love the reunion episodes that have recently been aired. And knowing that's it's near impossible to translate TV characters to book form without completely missing I was pleasantly surprised by this first X-Files novel. I thought Grant captured the characters fairly well. The beginning was slow and the writing was at times scattershot and skeletal. But I ultimately enjoyed another newly discovered "episode" of Mulder and Scully.

Not bad but it’s defo not good either

This was pretty good, if a bit short.

Bad. Blatant sexism throughout. Women are simply present to nag, be appreciated visually, and supplement male characters. Speaking of the male characters, they're so bland the most expressive action they make is running their fingers through their hair. They seem to have ridiculously good luck that sucks the plot dry of all intrigue. And the humour? As funny as men eating steaks and women eating salads. Yeah, that's actually in there. Dated, boring, and thankfully finished.

The X Files: Goblins, was a book that was easy and fun to read. Without being difficult and mind boggling, it's a great book to just kick back and relax without thinking to much. While this is a plus, I would've enjoyed a little more mystery instead of being so blunt and obvious. Other than that, I quite enjoyed this book.4/5

I thought that Charles L. Grant's "quiet horror" would appeal to me--the phrase brings to mind something slow and broody and culminating in something absolutely chilling or shocking (Adrean Messmer's Psychopomp and Circumstance comes to mind, or maybe some of Shirley Jackson's work). But aside from some beautifully evocative descriptions in the short stories I've read from his collection Nightmare Seasons, "quiet horror" seems to be code for "nothing actually happening".I was really looking forw...

By the Nines, this book was bad. I should have known better than to even try, but two things drew me to giving it a go.1. I've had decent luck with the Torchwood/Dr.Who books and audio dramas. Some have even been superb. This was on the complete other end of the 'book-tie-in' spectrum. The absolute other end.2. New X-Files. 'nuff said.

It feels a little weird rating this book the same as I did for Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, but I'll be damned if this book didn't surprise me. This is a re-read, but I'm notorious for forgetting most of the details from the books I've read 20+ years ago, so even parts of the plot surprised me. The biggest surprise, though, was that this felt unlike a typical Grant novel. The style was definitely his -- slow-burning and atmospheric -- but his usual books are overly descriptive, and light on pl...

Ok Its sunday and time for some retro reading - I will put my hand up (rather sheepishly) that at the time of its airing I loved the x-files. They were something new and interesting and had a sense of fun - even if they became harder and harder to believe - I remember the tag line on the first episode (or was it the pilot) where they said it was based on a true story, hmm how closely based I wonder. Anyway this book follows the same formula as the show - although it does not quote a specific tim...

Poor Kindle ConversionThe grammar in this conversion was awful; where there should have been paragraph blocks there were run on lines instead. This made the book a confusing and irritating read. The plot itself was predictable and I am unsure whether the author had a full grasp of the nuances and subtlety of Mulder and Scully's relationship. For X-Files completionists only.

A fun read for any X-Files fan. 👽

Disappointed in this one. The book focuses too much on FBI politics and not Scully & Mulder.