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julesjones) wrote2008-12-26 06:20 pm
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Book log: Daniel Fox: Dragon in Chains
My friend
moshui gifted me with an eARC of his new book, Dragon in Chains
. It arrived late Christmas Eve; I finished it not half an hour since. I'll have more to say about it when I've had time to digest, but for now, there is this: I would really, really like you all to go and pre-order it as encouragement to the publisher, because it is the first segment of the story, and I very much want to read the rest. This is fantasy as I like it, dark, complex, firmly rooted in reality but with magic laid thereon. And with a fascinating array of characters...
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I'm still contemplating how to write the review so that I give an idea of why this is so good without spoilering it. There's a lot of wonderful layering in of clues that as you get to the reveal on various plot strands make you go, "Oh, of *course*".
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I should warn you that it's the first part of a trilogy (he's just finishing off the manuscript of the second part now, I think), so you'll have to wait a while to see all of the story. But