
Tooth and Claw
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Narrated by:
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John Lee
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By:
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Jo Walton
A tale of contention over love and money - among dragons.
Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.
Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses... in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.
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My only disappointment came when I found this was not a new novel by Jo Walton and we are not likely to get an encore.
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[I listened to this as an audio book narrated by John Lee, who did an absolutely amazing job of adding just the right amount of smirk to his performance to assure the listener that he knows that we know that the story is just one huge confectionary, but one that we will gladly consume in one sitting even though we know too much sugar is not good for us.]
Pride & Prejudice meets Temeraire
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19th Century Novel - with Dragons
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Well crafted story with a nice ending
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Red in Tooth and Claw
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Interesting
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Loved it!!
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Take a bite!
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What other book might you compare Tooth and Claw to and why?
There's been a trend lately to write imitative re-tellings of Victorian authors and for the most part I have avoided them. But I love Trollope and I did enjoy Naomi Novik's tales of the Napoleonic Wars with dragons. So I thought I'd try this and was delighted.Trollope pastiche with dragons.
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High Society with Dragons!
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