Tooth and Claw
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 Tooth and Claw, 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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Community Reviews
by Jo Walton
The story:
The story is a Victorian novel where all the characters are dragons. The story starts with a family gather around to receive their inheritance from their fathers death. The twist is that their inheritance is their fatherâs body which they are supposed to eat.
The book is full of details like that. The lords can eat the weakest hatchlings of their subjects. The female dragon have scales that âblushâ with too much contact with dragon males which leaves them forever ruined.
And their wear fancy hats.
My take :
Told in a Victorian style including stilted language makes this book a difficult read.
by Jo Walton
The story:
The story is a Victorian novel where all the characters are dragons. The story starts with a family gather around to receive their inheritance from their fathers death. The twist is that their inheritance is their fatherâs body which they are supposed to eat.
The book is full of details like that. The lords can eat the weakest hatchlings of their subjects. The female dragon have scales that âblushâ with too much contact with dragon males which leaves them forever ruined.
And their wear fancy hats.
My take :
Told in a Victorian style including stilted language makes this book a difficult read.
by Jo Walton
The story:
The story is a Victorian novel where all the characters are dragons. The story starts with a family gather around to receive their inheritance from their fathers death. The twist is that their inheritance is their fatherâs body which they are supposed to eat.
The book is full of details like that. The lords can eat the weakest hatchlings of their subjects. The female dragon have scales that âblushâ with too much contact with dragon males which leaves them forever ruined.
And their wear fancy hats.
My take :
Told in a Victorian style including stilted language makes this book a difficult read.
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