The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale

This is a fantastic read free of overused plot points common to the genre

The story is great! It's no wonder that it remain at the top rankers in RRL.                     

Although the story moves slowly, It makes up with its amazing detail.

The MC character fits perfectly into a goblin who is trying to survive and 

live normally.

keep up the god work

When I read this story I can’t believe it isn’t written by a professionnal author, it’s that good of a story. Just one word to describe it awesome ! I love it !

This is a proper book quality story were the main character starts off weak and must slowly build himself up to exellence. Don't worry though he isn't pitifully weak. Each character I have seen so far has depth and personallity. The characters and story have been built to be belivable as well as relatable. Overall a must read   

The development and writing that went into the main character deserves praise, because they managed to get into a head of a monster and make us root for him, consistently.  

He's short.  He barely speaks the language.  I'm pretty sure he's ugly.  I definitely wouldn't adopt him.  But I'm with him 100% as he murders his way across the country.  I have no idea why.

A unique story, inspired character choice and development, and the committment to back up the tale.  Would read again.

Well I burned through 3 years of content in about 3 days so that was fun. It's an interesting tale of the progression of a goblin, it has a gradual pace, slowly building up to some steady power creep unlike some of the more dramatic and frantic upgrades in stories like Re: Monster or Reincarnated Slime.

The story as presented has two glaring flaws though, preventing me from giving it a perfect score.

The first one is Khita, she's super duper annoying and serves very little purpose other than being that obnoxious polarizing character. On the upside at least the annoying character isn't the MC being a dumbass, though the MC is a bit of a dumbass, but at least sort of learns from his mistakes. Or maybe he doesn't, his failures are at least amusing most of the time. The downside is that every female character is either a 2 dimensional character or flat out a terrible person. The bad kind of terrible where they're just kind of annoying and obnoxious and not the love to hate variety, though YMMV. 

The second flaw is that the entire story is just littered with typos, most amusingly with the MC's name being spelt at times in all sorts of random ways, blackail, blakcnail. Saeter gets referenced as Seater quite a few times. It kind of undermines some of the emotional beats when you have to fill in random words to make sense of what's being written. Apparently this has been addressed in the ebooks though so that's something I guess. 

All in all a good read, if the above points don't bother you. 

First story I read here.

I came to the page to read about Blacknail. I stayed as I've found a couple of more really good stories, read a ton that were so and so and enjoyed my stay enough to sign up. As a writer, I am equally strict and a big softy when reading a well thought out story. If I happen to like the character then I let my bias show.

Can't help meself, I love this Goblin! What an idea, the risk behind it, the vastness of the story, the taboo of going or not going certain ways. I can undestand all that and I'm glad the story touched so many themes. It wasn't perfect, no such thing exists in writing. It was good enough and in the top of the stories I've read in here, years after.

Bring him back if possible,

but either way thanks for the eye-opening journey. 

Iron Teeth is a damn fine story, with a main character who, while tough, doesn't get through by being over-powered and prefers to sneak about.

Style was great, and I really enjoyed the occasional interlude between arcs.  The only thing I'd say and its probably just a me thing is it would've been interesting to see a little bit more of the world outside of Blacknails POV.  If this didn't change I would still devour the chapters though.

Grammar was good, no massive blocky chapters, all split into easily read paragraphs.  Minor spelling errors that did not interfere with the enjoyable read, and did not cause misunderstandings.  Mostly due to double consonant or lack thereof where required.

Story was well fleshed out well thought and smoothly paced. It had the right amount of mysterious bad in the green, the lack of back-tracking to insert abilities showed that even if it wasn't 100% planned the author knew their own world and were comfortable in it.  I was sad to see this go on hiatus, hope it comes back at some stage, letting in Blacknail's interaction with southern scheming, investigating what is actually happening in the Green, and the Dark Paths below.

Characters, oh the characters.... There really well done, frustrating at times and oh gods below you want some to be put in their damn place! but investing emotion in characters means they're well written, and being able to see where their flaws come from means they are fleshed out enough. As stated before MC doesn't have overpowered shenanigans, and instead works with what he has.  Sneaky underhanded gobbo antics are what I hoped for and that is what I got.

All in all a damn solid read that cost me a few nights sleep as I opted to devour chapters instead. MC is interesting, world is fascinating and plot is well written, read the first arc and you should be hooked.