Territory
by Emma Bull
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Author: Emma BullIllustrator: John Jude Palencar
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-10
ISBN: 0312857357
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Tor Books
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Book Review: My first book by Bull; but not the last
Summary: 5 Stars
What a delight to be in the hands of a master storyteller! Characters are engaging and the book does not get in the way of the story, but pulls you in. Off now to buy everything else she has ever written.
LATER: Well, this will teach me to write a review before I've finished the book. I still very much like "Territory", but the voice of the book is more like a voice I am used to reading in Young Adult fiction, and in some places it does get a little silly. The level of attention, for example, that the heroine dedicates (or the author dedicates) to what she wears every day is a bit tiresome. The treatment of the Chinese character Chu is paper thin, ham handed and even a little offensive. I do like the idea of opening a window on the women's world of a town like Tombstone, but that idea never seems to go anywhere. We spend time gettng to know the Earp women, but for no particular reason.
There seems to be a shift in the book from more serious fiction to lighter, younger, sillier stuff somewhere in the middle. The strength of the beginning is what kept me turning pages to the end. If I could change my star rating, I'd give it a 3.5 or 4.
I then went back and read "War for the Oaks", which I think is the author's debut novel written in 1987. It is clumsy, and demonstrates a lot of the same flaws as this much more polished later book -- self-conscious and bad handling of non-white characters, a heroine who spends too much time in the mirror worrying about her clothes, and overuse of devices (in "Territory" it is Chu who swears in every sentence; in "War for the Oaks" it is the phouka who interjects "my sweet" or "my primrose" in every sentence). "Territory" is much better.
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