Tooth and Claw (Paperback)

from phethpwar

Glorious little book. I normally buy books based on ridiculous cover art, and I looked at this one mostly because of the dragon with the properly folded arms on the front. This is Pride and Prejudice with dragons (well, to be fair, it's a mix of a couple of Austen novels). Not much in the way of ...

from Vinjii

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 ...

from a-shelf-apart

Don't you hate it when you find a book that you know you've read, but somehow it's still marked as "to-read"? Yeah. Anyway, it's Victorian social drama but everyone is a dragon. Flesh-ripping, family-eating, religious, dragons with legal systems. And it's just as good as it sounds.

from justabookreader

Tooth and Claw is my second foray into Jo Walton's books; my first being Among Others. Now watch how I go all silly over this one. A dying father calls his family to his side. One son, a parson, hears his father's final confession, a practice no longer held by the church he belongs to but somethi...

from bookworm12

A Victorian novel with dragons, when it comes to gimmick novels this one certainly fits the bill, yet somehow it rises above that. Instead of the dragons being the focus and letting the rest of the story fall flat, they are just characters. It feels like any other novel that explores the world of...