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Tooth and Claw
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
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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- J
- 22-02-22
Victorian romance novel with a dragon twist
well ... it's a bit like reading a Jane Austen novel just that the characters are all dragons. I found it an enjoyable read (Sorry listening) but I wasn't blown away by it. In a way, the story was too predictable, having said that, I still enjoyed the ending. So for fans of Victorian romance novels it's definitively worth their while :-)
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- Michela
- 06-01-21
A noble society of Dragons
All characters are dragons in this intriguing novel, some of higher status and power, some of lower, some even serve of the rich and powerful. The story proceeds with a number of deaths, secret confessions and marriage proposals, as well as a crucial trial, and female dragons smartly make their own choices and enact decisive strategies as much as the more powerful males. Old customs are shown less and less appropriate for a civilised society while tolerance for all ideas seems to gain new relevance. By the end many dragons change their own status and fortune, and luckily all's well that ends well.
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