Nothing But Blue Skies

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Nothing But Blue Skies
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Author Tom Holt
Cover artistStephen Lee
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher Orbit Books
Publication date
2001
Media typePrint (Hardback)
ISBN 1-84149-040-7
OCLC 45829787
LC Class PR6058.O474 N68 2001

Nothing But Blue Skies is a humorous fantasy novel by English author Tom Holt. It was first published in the UK by Orbit Books in 2001.

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Synopsis

Karen is a Chinese dragon with weather powers, who falls in love with a human and disguises herself as a human so that they can be together; when her father, the adjutant-general to the Dragon King of the North West, comes looking for her, things become much more complicated.

Reception

In the Guardian , Jon Courtenay Grimwood declared that if readers "(e)xpect no logic from this book, (then) everything will be fine." [1]

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References

  1. Big in SF, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, in the Guardian ; published August 11, 2001; retrieved April 14, 2019