Classic Urban Fantasy
Jun. 15th, 2008 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bibliogrammaIn these times, when there's a new urban fantasy or supernatural romance on the shelves almost every day, and there is a recognisable format that so many of these books have adopted, it's fun to go back and re-read some of the earliest works of the genre.
Tea with the Black Dragon, by R. A. MacAvoy was written in 1983, when very little fantasy was being written that took place in contemporary times and real places. It is, like many modern urban fantasies, both a mystery adventure and a romance, but part of its charm is that the main characters are a middle-aged woman having communication problems with her daughter, and a centuries-old dragon in the form of a man who has grown tired waiting for the "master" that he was once told he was destined to meet.
It's a wonderful, charming, magical book, and it was a pleasure to read it once again.
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Date: 2008-06-16 07:27 pm (UTC)Wish I knew why she stopped writing in 1993.
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Date: 2008-06-16 07:52 pm (UTC)I just noticed yesterday (while checking her Wikipedia entry) that she has written a new novella, which I find is available only in electronic format through Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Go-Between/dp/B000CETP8C). I've linked to Amazon US - I don't know if it's also at Amazon UK, but it's not at Amazon Canada.