![]() ![]() It could so easily been a tale of offbeat whimsy, and there’s nothing wrong with that. REVIEW: If you thoroughly enjoy Fantasy, particularly depictions of dragons along the lines of Anne McCaffrey and Robin Hobbs – but also like Victorian novels, especially those by Anthony Trollope, then Tooth and Claw is sheer delight. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. In which the great and the good avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. 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. One daughter becomes involved in the abolition movement, while another sacrifices herself for her husband.Īnd everyone in the tale is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2004.īLURB: A tale of love, money, and family conflict – among Dragons.Ī family deals with the death of their father.Īnother son agonises over his father’s deathbed confession. ![]() Here are my thoughts about the first book of hers that I encountered… She continues to be one of my favourite authors. This review was posted on 4th November 2013, and I’m reposting it in honour of Jo Walton, whose writing and book covers I’m celebrating today. ![]()
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