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dkragick's review
3.0
Took longer than I felt it should to get into. Some good, dry comedy. Mostly just silly.
spectacledbear's review
4.0
Karen the dragon (not her dragon name, obviously...) falls in love with a human and takes human form in order to be with him. Which doesn't exactly go as planned. Particularly since her father tries to find her and is captured by a weatherman who has discovered that dragons make it rain who then somehow forces him to take goldfish form (dragon, human and goldfish seems to be their limit in terms of shapes; this smacks of poor research - you'd have thought they'd have chosen a panther or a Jack Russell rather than a goldfish. But that's another story.) and then re-captured by bad guys who work for the father or the man Karen's become human for. (Keep up, there will be questions later.)
Occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, and always very clever. Tom Holt rarely disappoints.
Occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, and always very clever. Tom Holt rarely disappoints.
nigelbrown's review
2.0
Holt has been compared to Douglas Adams and while I can see comparisons, his attempts at humour just don’t hit the mark. I do see why some would like his writing, but I found the tale a little childish and dull. Not for me I’m afraid.
caterinaanna's review
4.0
Tom Holt is always good for cheering up a rainy day - even when he is writing about rain and its causes. There are digs at all sorts of targets in this book, along with the usual puns and surreal mixture of mythologies (plural) and invention. I'm glad he's a prolific writer and I'm glad there are many more of his books left for me to read.
fellfromfiction's review
4.0
Properly mental, but expertly funny and really, really clever. Like Douglas Adams if he'd stayed on Earth.
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