You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. 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. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 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. Tooth and Claw - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. 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.Įxcept that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. 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. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.A tale of contention over love and money-among dragons 19)įYI: In 2002, Walton received a John W. Full of political intrigue and romance, this provocative read sets the stage for further adventures in a world that, as the author admits in her prefatory note, 'owes a lot to Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage.' (Nov. One unmarried daughter, on moving in with the married sister and Daverak, discovers a house filled with injustice, while the other unmarried daughter goes off with Penn and falls in love. Avan, the younger son, decides to litigate for compensation.

On the death of the dragon Bon Agornin, his parson son Penn, one of five siblings (two male and three female), declares, 'We must now partake of his remains, that we might grow strong with his strength, remembering him always.' But Bon's greedy son-in-law, Illustrious Daverak, consumes more than his fair share of the departed dragon, setting off a chain of unexpected and, at times, calamitous events for each sibling.

Dragons ritually eat dragons in order to gain strength and power in Walton's enthralling new fantasy (after 2002's The Prize in the Game), set amid a hierarchical society that includes a noble ruling class, an established church, servants and retainers.

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