Tooth and Claw / Jo Walton - 4****

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Tooth And Claw – Jo Walton
4****

What a fun romp of a story! It’s a typical regency (or Victorian) romance: the females cannot inherit and must marry well; there are rather rigid rules of etiquette and social classes should not mix; country houses and balls in town; young females are presented during the season; oldest sons inherit the title while younger sons need to into the military or perhaps the clergy. BUT … all the characters are dragons.

I was captured from the first page and enthralled and entertained throughout. Oh, how I wish this was a series, because I want to read more about the Algornin family, but apparently, it’s not.

Thank you, Robin P, for introducing this book to me!


LINK to my review

[Joanne]

Good to hear! I have this on my TBR and put it my pile of "need a pick-me-up read"

[Robin P]

So glad you liked it! I did it on audio, which was great. Jo Walton is multi-talented. Her trilogy on life in WWII England if they had made peace with Nazis (starting with Farthing I found totally compelling. Another wonderful book is Among Others where a teenage girl has her life saved both figuratively and literally by books. She has other that are more traditional fantasy that I haven't yet read.

[Jen K]

Sounds very fun!