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  • Written by: Jo Walton
  • Narrated by: John Lee
  • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Tooth and Claw

Written by: Jo Walton
Narrated by: John Lee
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Publisher's 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.

©2003 Jo Walton (P)2014 Audible Inc.

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Familiar in a very unique way

I had to overcome a certain amount of cognitive dissonance in the beginning having dragons as the main characters, but by the end I was captivated and eager to explore the world further. Will look for additional books by this author.

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