- MP3 CD Library Binding
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD; MP3 Una edition (Nov 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1441879838
- ISBN-13: 978-1441879837
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The Gales of southern Ontario can change the world with the charms they cast, and they prefer to keep all this power in the family. The Gale Aunties are in charge of this clan, or like to think they are. Alysha, like all her cousins, often finds herself beset with too many Aunties trying to run her life. So when a letter from her missing Gran arrives telling her that she’s inherited a junk shop in Calgary, Alysha is ready and willing to honor her grandmother’s last request to keep the shop open and serve “the community.” The Aunties, of course, want her to find out what really happened to Gran and come right back home, where they have her future mapped out for her. It isn’t until she arrives in Calgary that Alysha realizes it’s the fey community she’ll be serving in The Enchantment Emporium — and that one person’s junk may be another person’s magical treasure. Finding out what happened to Gran will not be easy, especially since Alysha has no way of knowing just how much otherwordly trouble is brewing in Calgary. And even calling in family reinforcements may not be enough to save the day….
About the Author
Tanya Huff is the author of numerous highly successful fantasy series. Her earlier DAW novels were chosen by the New York Public Library system as part of their Books for Teens program, and she's been a finalist for Canada's top awards in the genre.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An absorbing story, intriguing characters, well written,
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This review is from: The Enchantment Emporium (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is like an English trife; covered with rich whipped cream, layered with fresh fruit, thick vanilla pudding, raspberry jam and pound cake soaked generously in sherry and chilled until every flavour blends,yet leaving the textures distinct. It's delicious, a lovely book.When I read the first thirty pages I was slightly dismayed with multiple characters doing bizarre things without logic or connection... men wearing antlers, multiple couplings, people popping in and out of interdimensional shrubbery, unpleasant aunts and lots and lots of baked goods. I even put it away for a week, but once I picked it up again I could not put it down. All the characters connected, the story revealed itself and then there were dragons and I was hooked. (There is nothing like a sexy dragon to lock me into a story.) Half way through I started checking to see how much more of the book was left to read; I didn't want it to end. And when it did, I went back and reread those first thirty pages and they all fell into place. This is not a book with neat endings and tidy resolutions. The author leaves unanswered questions and a certain sadness at the conclusion. Not everyone necessarily lives happily ever after but perhaps they do. Or perhaps they live they way they were meant to after all, and that can be a comfort. Tanya Huff is such a fine writer and this book is a keeper!
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
I loved it!,
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This review is from: The Enchantment Emporium (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book from Tanya, though it's quite a change of pace from her others. What can I say, I love dragon stories - and the dragons in this each seemed like a real person with different personalities and stories of their own, not just as linked to the fully human and not so fully human characters. I loved having a book set in Winnipeg. I loved the very literary setting and feel (this book will appeal to Jasper Fjorde fans even though it is not silly). And I very much prefer stories that end properly and stand on their own, even though there will be more in that world, than stories which just seem like a set-up for books 2 and 3. I'll be buying all future books in this world, and I hope there is one soon.This review is a Random Act of Publicity - see [...]
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3.9 out of 5 stars (59 customer reviews) 40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Gale family will blow you away.,
By Christa - Published on Amazon.com
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Like Huff's 'Blood', 'Smoke' and 'Keeper' books, 'The Enchantment Emporium' is fast-paced urban fantasy peopled with believable characters and stuffed with pop references. It's also laugh-out-loud funny on nearly every page.Alysha 'Allie' Gale comes from a old, large family whose women are witches who grow more powerful as they age, and whose men are also powerful, different and dangerous. Allie is at loose ends. She's worried about her brother, because he hasn't chosen what he wants to be and their meddling aunties are thinking about choosing for him. She's pining over a man she can't have because he's gay(though she could have changed his mind) and she's just lost her job. Then she gets a letter from her grandmother, who has left her shop and the mystery of what's become of her to Allie. What she finds is a junk shop frequented by the Fey, a snooping reporter with the bluest eyes she's ever seen, and Trouble with a capital 'T'. She wants to handle it on her own, but even with the help of a couple of cousins, her gay not-boyfriend and an overgrown leprechaun, Calgary, Alberta is the center of a coming storm, and all the might of the Gales will be needed to stop it. 30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
"We don't force it; we just let things happen.",
By spiderorchid - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Enchantment Emporium (Hardcover)
As there are already some good summaries of the plot, I'll skip this and come right to the point."The Enchantment Emporium" is not "The Keepers Cronicles" or any other Huff book recycled. It's a great new novel with an original plot and an interesting cast of characters. Of course, if you've read a lot of Tanya Huff's books, you'll meet old aquaintances: her trademark sense of humour, her habbit of having characters quoting from popular culture to make a point (and the reader laugh), the fact that she enjoys writing about strong, independend women and makes fun of men. So what? That's normal for every author. It's called a writing style. About the things that don't get explained: I admit it, as a reader, you get hit over the head with the plot in the first sentence of the novel. A lot of things don't get explained explicitly. You have to figure them out yourself in the course of the narrative. I think it's fun, keeps the plot moving and helps the reader to get deeper into what's happening because you have to begin to think like the characters if you want to understand what they are, what their motivations are and why things happen. It's not the 'normal' approach to writing a fantasy novel, but in my opinion, it works and provides an exciting new perspective. "The Enchantment Emporium" is a funny, suspenseful book with loveable characters and wonderful descriptions (I just love the dragons!). There's humour, violence, sex, mythological creatures, yoyos, music and lots of baking. Highly recommended! 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ninety percent Human - maybe,
By Virginia E. Demarce "veasleyd" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Enchantment Emporium (Hardcover)
First, I found this to be one of the most enjoyable books of the year. I've re-read it several times.However -- Huff decided not to make it easy. Unless a person comes to it with some sense of Celtic mythology (the horned god; the power of young woman/mother/crone, the leprechaun, the water spirit, etc.), making sense of the May Day family reunion scene into which the reader is immediately dropped would not be an easy adjustment. There's no actual description of "ritual," but plenty of implications as to what it involves. Additionally, and I believe deliberately, she didn't make a lot of anthropology-style or sociology-style infodumps in regard to the world-building. In one way, it takes place in modern Canada, partly in the family's "traditional" territory and partly in Calgary. In another way, the Gale extended family, while mostly human, is not quite so, not entirely so, and its members exist in accordance with their own prerequisites, which are not identical with the conventions of the ordinary society around them (though some reviewers would have benefited from reading more carefully before fretting about the level of inbreeding). The Gales go to college; Alysha has a fine arts degree and was working at the Royal Ontario Museum cataloging artifacts before the grant money that paid her ran out; her cousin Roland is a lawyer. It's a world that the protagonist, Alysha Catherine Gale, knows well, and sees no need to explain at length. She just needs to figure out how to function in the changed circumstances caused by her possibly but not necessarily deceased grandmother's rather unusual bequest. At the same time, the world of the Gales borders on others, with the result that there are dragon princes in their Calgary. There are sorcerers; ritual requires power and the "Gale girls" are attracted to power -- although, as Alysha points out, power can be variably defined and her father is a high school history teacher. |
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