If you read something by her and like it, please let me know.

The jumbled dream imagery made sense when you figure that the images were sent to her by human and tengu dreamers, all of whom were brought up on earth. However, since the tengu were raised as Chinese, you’d think there’d be some Chinese imagery mixed in, wouldn’t you? The plot was a tad confusing but the book was so fun to read, I’ll probably re-read to figure it out.

The sexual relationships in elfin society are very different than human: elves don’t invest the same sort of possessive weight to sex that humans do. It doesn’t seem to matter if one has more than one lover- sex is something that is fun and to be shared. And the rules about sex between the classes are set up to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Very practical, actually. It made sense to me– and I saw Tinker’s confusing feelings for Pony as the effects of her elfin body warring with her human attitudes.

Haven’t read anything else by Wen Spencer but I will definitely seek her out now.

But TINKER, I thought, was fun and imaginative, with just the right mix of humor and the dark/icky — and I loved all of the geeky aspects of it, from the science to the heavy dose of Japanese mythology threaded through.

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So far she hasn’t written a book that I haven’t enjoyed. I’m curious to see how I fare with Endless Blue (due for release in December) as this seems to be science fiction. And I hope it’s not going to go over my head.

I like the fact that she doesn’t constrain herself. The Ukiah books were urban fantasy, although Tinker is kind of urban fantasy it feels more like traditional fantasy because of all the elvish customs. Then she writes A Brother’s Price which is a very romantic almost alternative history fantasy.