This book was weird....good weird, but weird nonetheless.It took me by surprise even with a head's up. I struggled trough all that anthropomorphism honestly, the novel was too well detailed and the human mind just wanted to bend the dragons into a human form. It was like reading a Regency novel but ...
I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love this book! I can't! Because it will just be me gushing over the brilliance that is Jo Walton and her writing. She writes spectacularly! She can get the reader wrapped up in this high society of dragons and the reader can imagine being one of these drag...
So: Pride and Prejudice in a world with dragons.If this description pushes any of your buttons, I heartily recommend this book. I especially liked the way Walton mimics the language of Austen, not simply the manners, customs, and limitations of her era. Not to mention extrapolating all of these to d...
When I first read the description of this book I was skeptical. And perhaps suspicious. Definitely intrigued. This attempts to rectify the main problem of Victorian novels, namely, the lack of dragons. Your reaction is probably fairly similar to mine. Victorian novel...with dragons? Well, I have to ...
"It is the way of the dragon to eat each other." - Dignified Bon Agornin, Tooth and ClawI've read that Tooth and Claw owes its existence to Victorian novels, particularly Anthony Trollope's Framely Parsonage. Apparently the author was reading two novels, one was The Small House at Allington by Trol...
Do you think that the concept of reading a Victorian novel where all the characters just happen to be dragons sounds like the most clever thing you've heard since last season? Well then, this book is for you.I picked this up since Walton just won the Nebula, and I realized I'd never read anything by...
This review was originally posted at Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog on Jan. 10, 2012.Like most books I buy, it's been so long since I bought this one-- over a year!-- that all I could remember about Tooth and Claw was that it had dragons. And, well, yeah, it's got dragons. But it's got a lot of other stuff...
I don’t have too much to say about this one, because I loved it! Jo Walton is pretty much always great. Here she writes a Victorian novel of manners (AND, I was SO happy, this really is Victorian, not Austenesque!) whose main characters are dragons. Also, brilliant use of Tennyson.
(review originally posted on my livejournal account: http://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com/24794.html)I've never heard of Jo Walton, let alone of this book, so when I ordered it online to read for the Women of Fantasy Book Club, I had zero expectations. Hell, I didn't even read the summary; I had no ...
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