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The Tooth Fairy: A Novel

Graham Joyce

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A coming-of-age tale for adults. 3 out of 5 stars.
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Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy (Tor, 1998)

I had a rough time getting into The Tooth Fairy, for reasons I don't quite understand. It's really the kind of book that should have grabbed me from the opening lines and not let go, but I spent almost two months wandering aimlessly through it before it got interesting. (I did manage to pinpoint the moment when it did get interesting, though--when the tooth fairy's character gains some real depth, which happens on page 166 of the first-edition American hardback. Yes, I'm that obsessive.)

For all that, though, it's certainly not a bad little book, chronicling the trials and tribulations of the infamous Redstone Moodies, aka the Heads-Looked-At Boys, aka any number of epithets hurled at them by elders, peers, passing strangers, and anyone else who gets near them. Sam, Terry, and Clive are the town misfits, growing up together almost by default, as no one else will have them. They're pretty much guaranteed to be bad seeds, and they fulfill all expectations, though none of them is quite sure why they're doing so. Intelligence and crushing boredom do not mix well. We see glimpses of their lives from their very young days (the boys are still prepubescent as the book opens) to the summer before college.

Sam, however, is slightly different than the others: on the night he lost his first tooth, as the tooth fairy came to collect it, he woke up, and the two of them became inextricably bound. No one else around him, of course, can see the tooth fairy; this is a burden he must shoulder on his own. And a burden it is, given that the tooth fairy is a particularly nasty individual at times, cursing those around Sam in inventive, and rather ugly, ways. Sam quickly comes to recognize the power this holds, and the dark consequences of abusing that power.

Definitely not your normal coming-of-age tale, and it's certainly nice to see one that's not immediately sent off to the young adult market just because it's a coming-of-age tale. Certainly worth checking out. ***

Editorial Review:

The disquietude in Graham Joyce's coming-of-age tale is that of having too much power as a child--the kind of power that turns your slightest wishes into mayhem. This power is granted to the rather ordinary and fearful member (neither the smartest nor the strongest) of a trio of friends growing up in small-town England by his stinky and enigmatic night visitor, the Tooth Fairy. The charm of this British Fantasy Award-winning novel is in his subtle and unsentimental portrait of a supernaturally benighted childhood. As Ellen Datlow writes in Omni, "Joyce immediately hooks his readers from the very first page with a small sharp shock and holds the reader with engaging characters and an air of menace. This tooth fairy is ... mischievous and destructive, representing our own worst aspects." --Fiona Webster

Requiem

Graham Joyce

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Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Da Vinci Code w/ very explicit sex scenes 2 out of 5 stars.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I wasn't able to finish this book. I put up with several explicit sex scenes before finally putting it down due to the explicit sex with a kid scene. Very disturbing. If you've read the Da Vinci code you'll be familiar with the basic plot line of Jesus was married and the Chrisitian church covered it up so they could set up a religion. If these things don't bug you then it isn't a bad book, but I'm submitting the review I wish was here before I bought the book.

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"The city is like a fractured mirror: you can see yourself, but you get a shock at how it comes back to you. "The city is contemporary Jerusalem, described in all the richness of its walls and gardens, shrines and religions--ancient dust, olive trees, the smell of falafel oil and balsam, mysterious writing on crumbling stones. The man who comes to find (or lose) himself there is a schoolteacher from England who quit his job in the aftermath of his wife's tragic death and a fuss about his possible involvement with a student. Graham Joyce weaves an absorbing tale about friends and lovers tugging at the delicate strands of ancient mysteries with both Islamic mythological and Christian religious elements. Requiem has ghosts, demons ("djinns"), doppelgängers, crazy people, and passionate main characters; it is a well-constructed dark novel, only flawed slightly by a listless ending. Winner of the 1996 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

Dark Sister

Graham Joyce

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Dark Sister is the third book by British fantasy writer Graham Joyce to be published in the United States--and the author travels further into the realm of pure horror than he did in The Tooth Fairy or Requiem. Maggie, an unfulfilled, restless housewife in England, comes to terms with her nascent, otherworldly power amidst a disheveled and antagonistic domestic life. Her archaeologist-husband Alex is subtly dominating, which makes for an unfulfilling marriage. So, Maggie buries herself in the chaos of her small children, until a chance discovery both liberates her and invokes catastrophe.

During a routine cleaning of a chimney fireplace, she discovers an herbalist's journal; soon after, her life unfurls wildly and runs horribly aground. It seems that the owner of the journal was not just an herb woman, but also a witch with real powers. Inspired by this forgotten woman, Maggie begins to dabble in the arts of Wicca. The gifts it brings her are powerful--a sense of freedom, purpose, even clairvoyance. But every gift has its counterbalance, and Maggie's newfound telepathy allows her to see things she might have wanted to remain hidden. Even more ominously, it seems that in unearthing the journal, Maggie has awakened deep tragedies from an abandoned time, and the evil that now stalks her and her family might be insatiable and unstoppable. --Tamara Hladik

The Web: Spiderbite (Web Series 1)

Graham Joyce

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A story of subversion and intrigue on the web set in 2027.

The Stormwatcher

Graham Joyce, John Picacio

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"Of those writers who stoically refuse to trudge along horror fiction's well-worn path, Joyce, with British Fantasy Awards to his credit for Requiem and The Tooth Fairy, has perhaps had the most success. And now we can add to that list The Stormwatcher... For this remarkable, fine and almost unclassifiable book is a complete breath of fresh air, even considering his past achievements. The story is simply (!) the interaction of a group of somewhat dysfunctional friends during a two-week holiday in a lonely cottage in the Dordogne region of France. The group comprises James and his French wife, Sabine, and their two young daughters - Beth and the confused Jessie -plus James's one-time colleague Matt and his wife, Chrissie ... and, just to make things interesting, the sultry Rachel, another work-chum of James and one with whom he has shared considerably more than the occasional business meeting. As the story progresses we discover that one of the party - an unnamed instructor whose identity is kept hidden until the end of the book - is engaged in secret lessons with the impressionable Jessie, for reasons not immediately clear. Meanwhile, courtesy of a nicely-realized series of tense-changed flashbacks, we learn more of the instructor's background and an almost symbiotic relationship in which both she and her lover speak only lies to each other. All the time, Jessie grows more intense and confused while, around her, other members of the party grow, by turn, increasingly belligerent or subservient, manipulative or malleable, paranoid or confident. And underpinning the sequence of events is an intense feeling of primal sensuality evoked both by the environment and an approaching storm (its progress cleverly interjected into the proceedings by a series of half-page chapters explaining meteorological behaviour) and by the behaviour of the adults as their feelings for each other - and their protectiveness and confusion at the antics of and comments from young Jessie - swirl and eddy." Signed by the author. This is the only US edition.

Dreamside

Graham Joyce

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Dreamy Premise, Drowsy Ending 2 out of 5 stars.
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Ella, Lee, Honora and Brad are college students in the UK who participated in a seemingly harmless experiment whih asks the question: are dreamers aware that they are dreaming as they dream? As the experiments continue and the participants become more daring, they discover how to actually choose a "Dreamside" meeting place and "meet" there as a group. However, as in all these science-runs-amuck stories, the experiments are abandoned due to a horrendous side effect--nightmares in real time and the inability of the dreamer to consciously know whether he/she has actually awakened or has dreampt he/she has awakened. One dreamer in particular is effected so thoroughly that her life is ruined, changed forever. Twelve years later, the since separated foursome are still pulled together by the reoccurance of Dreamside's side effects and must band together to stop the snowballing consequences that threaten to destroy them all. Sounds good, huh? Well. . .
Read the first half of this book---it does not disappoint--the present day unwanted reoccurance of the dreams, the details of the college time experiments, and the decision of two of the dreamers to band together to correct the problem---fantastic! Dream reading ---- But, the ending--[heck], IT PUT ME TO SLEEP--so, make up you own. Anything is better than the author's less than perfect three snores and a beer can climax and conclusion. Better yet, [see] Dreamscape or Flatliners on DVD or VHS.

Editorial Review:

Finally available in America: the debut novel from the author of The Tooth Fairy and Dark Sister

It began as an experiment in college--a seemingly harmless investigation into "lucid dreaming," the ability to control one's dreams.

But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now, ten years later, the dreams have returned--returned to upend their adult lives. The dreams of youth fade, if you're lucky. If not, they can consume you . . . and will.

The Web: 2027

Stephen Bowkett, Eric Brown, Graham Joyce, Peter F. Hamilton, Maggie Furey

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A Great Book even if it is a bit childish on the side 4 out of 5 stars.
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Another great collection of Sci-Fi Novels, a collection of Six stories that join into one big story... All of them have separate storylines which all coincide towards the end.

A great read for anyone on holiday and nothing much to do... Reads easily even if it is a bit on the childish side most of the time, a great read for kids getting into Sci-Fi and I certainly enjoyed it...

A bit of a change from Asimov ;Þ

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THE WEB: 2027 depicts a world very different from ours. Life is dominated by the Web - a global cybernetwork of virtual worlds. And no-one's lives are dominated more than the children's - most of their schooling is in the Web and nearly all their leisure time is spent there. The Web has become big business. But there are pressure groups who see its influence as insidious, evil even. The actions of one ageing technocrat are about to make the worst fears of the doomsayers come true. And the children of the world are in the front line.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2002 (Volume 102, No. 2)

kate wilhelm, dale bailey, jack williamson, steve utley, graham joyce, robert sheckley

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Wonderland (Doctor Who)

Mark Chadbourn

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Partial Eclipse and Other Stories

Graham Joyce

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