Jo Walton is my new favorite book nerd. She's a huge dork for science-fiction and fantasy, which you know if you read her wonderful retrospective reviews over at Tor.com. She's also clearly a geek for the written word in general, particularly 19th century Victorian-era social novels. And so, in gran...
The girlfriend got this at Free Book Day this year, but was unsure if a Victorian drama about dragons was too silly for us. I answered with an emphatic hell no it is not too silly.
Jo Walton says this book is an attempt to write a society in which the social conventions of the sentimental Victorian novel were instead inescapable laws of nature. It was such a fun experiment, I was kept very happily absorbed and amused by the way the dragon society worked, and by the parallels...
Loved it. Bloody brilliant. If Dickens could write a believable female, he might have managed this. I particularly like the social consciousness that fits into the Victorian feel.***Now, three quarters of the way through, I love this book to distraction. Somehow the mannered characters being dra...
No longer will I sigh that the Victorians didn't write fantasy: Walton has done it for them! When an old dragon patriarch dies, his relatives gather round to split his treasure—-and devour his body. The plot concerns the ensuing law suit, several love affairs and a growing spirit of revolution, ye...
This novel has an unusual premise--a quasi-Victorian tale of love, money, and a lawsuit over an inheritance, in which all the characters are dragons--and if you like both fantasy and comedies of manners, and are entertained by the thought of combining the two, you will probably like Tooth and Claw. ...
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