While one daughter is caught between loyalty to her family by blood and her family by marriage, another daughter follows her heart - only to discover the great cost of true love.

While the youngest son seeks greedy remuneration through the courts of law, the eldest son - a dragon of the cloth - agonises over his father's deathbed confession. But even as Bon's last remains are polished off, his sons and daughters must all jostle for a position in the new hierarchy. A family of dragons gathers on the occasion of the death of their father, the elder Bon Agornin. “The pacing is brisk, the emotional impact great.Walton is making page-turners out of her take on Arthur’s Britain.”īook Description Paperback. Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The King’s Name “War is a tough subject to do well, but in this gritty, moving second and final book in the saga of Tir Tanagiri, British author Walton makes the strife of civil war not only believable but understandable. Sulien is a soldier first, honorable, capable, and trustworthy, and she is a wonderfully believable character.”

Never lacks immediacy or loses its historical quality. “Walton writes with an authenticity that never loses heart.” It’s good to know that there will be more.” You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.“The King’s Peace beautifully and thought-provokingly tells a story set in a world and a history almost like ours, but different enough to be in itself a kind of elvenland.

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. 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. 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.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. A tale of contention over love and money-among dragons

Tooth and claw by jo walton