Tooth and Claw

A tale of love, money, and family conflict among dragons A family deals with the death of their father A son goes to court for his inheritance Another son agonises over his father s deathbed confession One daughter becomes involved in the abolition movement, while another sacrifices herself for her husband And everyone in the tale 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 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 You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. New Download [ Tooth and Claw ] author [ Jo Walton ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 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 grand you got your chocolate in my peanut butter tradition, she wrote a book that combines them both, recasting a Victorian novel with anthropomorphic dragons It s a literary mash up with the potential 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 grand you got yo...She d like me to bring a dragon home, I suppose It would serve her right if I did, some creature that would make the house intolerable to her This quote, found at the beginning of Tooth and Claw, is from Anthony Trollope s novel Framley Parsonage, published monthly through 1860 1 in Cornhill Magazine, a new periodical aimed at the family market Framley Parsonage, for those genre readers who haven t dipped much past the Freshman Lit toehold in the vast ocean of 19th century novels, comes She d like me to bring a dragon home, I suppose It would serve her right if I did, some creature that would make the house intolerable to her This quote, found at the beginning of Tooth and Claw, is from Anthony Trollope s novel Framley Parsonage, published monthly through 1860 1 in Cornhill Magazine, a new periodical aimed at the family market Framley Parsonage, for those genre readers who haven t dipped much past the Freshman Lit toehold in the vast ocean of 19th century novels, comesor less in the middle of Trollope s Barsetshire series, which follow the lives of a set of primarily gentry and ecclesiastical families in an imaginary English county Framley Parsonage was considered by many reviewers and readers of the time to be a pleasant, pastoral tale, to contrast with the fraughtly moody writings of the likes of Wilkie Collins, also popular at the time The quote Walton chose printed...This was recently published in France, and I m at Etonnants Voyageurs, a Franch literary festival where they always want you to talk abour your most recent book, in detail Since I wrote this in 2002 and didn t re read it since the proofs of the mass market paperback in 2005, I thought I d better re read it to refamiliarize myself with it.I found some errors that I d tweak if redoing proofs, but felt no desire to rewrite And on the whole I liked it It s funny and gruesome, and the voice is cle This was recently published in France, and I m at Etonnants Voyageurs, a Franch literary festival where they always want you to talk abour your most recent book, in detail Since I wrot...4.5 Stars This was really spectacular It s a Victorian drama populated with dragons instead of people, definitely my kind of book I think what I loved most about this was how dragon lore and mythology was transformed to work with Victorian societal customs Seriously, it s eerie how well everything worked together even though it was definitely a bit weird The victorian drama plot was also really splendid, and I could never figure out what was going to happen next It definitely has a touch 4.5 Stars This was really spectacular It s a Victorian drama populated with dragons instead of people, definitely my kind of book I think what I loved most about this was how dragon lore and mythology was transformed to work with Victorian societal customs Seriously, it s eerie how well everything worked together even though it was definitely a bit weird The victorian drama plot was also really splendid, and I could never figure out what was going to happen next It definitely has a touch of Austen and Heyer in the writing and overall felt like you were reading a proper Victorian novel, but it didn t rehash well known plots which was great If there is one problem I had with the book is that it did read a little slow at times, and I do wish...SpoilersI can see why Tooth and Claw was described as the Pride and Prejudice of the dragon world There were times where I felt like I was reading an Austen novel, a very bizarre Austen novel with church going, hat wearing, high society, cannibal dragons Took a while to immerse into the story and get used to the world The beginning was rather slow and not much seemed to happen apart from a lot of waiting and monologuing The world building and setting was very impressive for the most part Spoil...This is unlike anything I ve ever read in fantasy.If Jane Austen, or maybe Charles Dickens, felt the sudden urge to write a fantasy book about dragons, this is probably what they would have written It has everything daughters who need to marry, a lost inheritance, etiquette, romance, a greedy family member, a confession, and charming characters Onlythey re all dragons And they also eat each other.If any of that sounds at all intriguing to you, please pick this up It s short, charming, wi This is unlike anything I ve ever read in fantasy.If Jane Austen, or maybe Charles Dickens, felt the sudden urge to write a fantasy book about dragons, this is probably what they would have written It has everything daughters...Dragons meet Victorian drama YES, bloody shrimping please Also, this book is super fishing cheap, so yay and stuff P.S Thank thee kindly, Miriam, for mentioning this one to me I shall forever be full of gratePeople keep referring to this novel as Jane Austen with dragons which is misleadingit s not Jane Austen, it s Anthony Trollope, as Walton says in the acknowledgements The difference Well, for those of you who haven t read Trollope myself included this is a Victorian novel, not Regency In fact, I thought the whole time that it had strong shades of Charles Dickens in it Family strife, extreme stress on rank and duty, wives giving up their personal preferences in order to support the People keep referring to this novel as Jane Austen with dragons which is misleadingit s not Jane Austen, it s Anthony Trollope, as Walton says in the acknowledgements The difference Well, for those of you who haven t read Trollope myself included this is a Victorian novel, not Regency In fact, I thought the whole time that it had strong shades of Charles Dickens in i...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, yet each of the characters are well drawn and believable Walton does an excellent job of mixing a familiar romance plot with politics and the occasional alien aspects of dragon society She says this nov 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, yet each of the characters are well drawn and believable Walton does an excellent jo...I read this as my Transfiguration book for the OWLs readathon This story is an unexpected surprise as it s basically fantasy of manners with a whole lot of family politics but everyone is a dragon There is commentary on slavery and brutality in the culture of dragonkind, but there is also a lot of love and care between the family members we follow This story is l about hypocrisy and older civilisations and rules and regulations, but it s also a very inventive tale and one I enjoyed a lot S I read this as my Transfiguration book for the OWLs readathon This story is an unexpected surprise as it s basically fantasy of manners with a whole lot of family politics but everyone is a dragon There is co...

• English
• 13 August 2018
Jo Walton
• Mass Market Paperback
• 304 pages
• 0765349094
• Jo Walton
• Tooth and Claw