Customer Reviews

Finder

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Excellent Urban Fantasy!!! It actually got me hooked on reading Urban Fantasy's. This is Emma Bull's best book and I recommend it to fantasy fans everywhere. A definite must read.

I read Finder a long time ago. seems like eons but I always loved the book and what Borderland books I could get my hands on. I love the idea of a city/country that borders on the realm of Faerie and "The World"
Orient is a strong character, a dreamer with a huge heart.
I cried when he loses his best friend Tick Tick.

I wish there were more books in the series and now that I own this one I want to find all I can that were published for my personaly library

Another Borderlands novel from Emma Bull, this one gives the reader new insight into the Borderlands. Bull's edgy book features characters whom you will care about and find interesting. It was as satisfying as War for the Oaks. When you finish with her Borderland books, try Will Shetterley's -- they feature some of the same characters.

I stumbled onto this book purely by chance. And I don't think there's anything I can say to properly prepare you for this book. Absolutely beautiful, mesmerizing, superb..... Just read it. You'll find out what I'm talking about. And, God, Tick-Tick....

if you have visited the border,you will have to check in with your old friends at Danceland....Terri Windlings shared world series ranks highly with all who read it...be prepared for razor wit and puns when you least expect it,also an emotional attachment to the characters

I loved this book. I've read it so many times I've lost count. The characters are so well developed we start thinking to ourselves, I Wonder where they are now, even though we know they are fictional. I would and have recommended this book. An inspiring read that makes you want to "Do great things" in a sometimes not so great world.

It's interesting to see what a unique talent can do with characters and material originally created for one of the "shared universe" anthologies that no longer plague us quite so much as was the case a few years back. (Though "Borderlands", along with the "Liavek" books -- featuring many of the same crew of authors were among the Very Best of the breed...)

All of the important elements of Bordertown are here -- the "Cat Street Crier", the Dancing Ferret, (and Goldie, Sai and Strider), the Mad River, Ho Street, and so on -- but it is still uniquely Bull's imagination and her story, and hers alone.

Other reviewers have gone into the What Happens Next aspects -- i'd like to touch on some of the Why It's Interesting When It Happens.

Orient, Tick Tick and Sonny Rico and all of the other characters who get mixed into this wind up *changed*. I mean *really* changed -- some die, some have to live with tose deaths and some never really understand what the hell is going on.

One of Johnny Cash's recent songs refers to "a long walk in a cold rain" -- and that's what Orient and company set out on -- this is an almost classic trip " ... down these mean streets ... [by] ... a man who is not himself mean ..."

You will not be indifferent to the fates of Orient and friends, as we all too often find ourselves indifferent to those of the "heroes" in all too many recent works of boilerplate conanistic "heroic fantasy". As a matter of fact, if you are not careful, you may care just a bit too much and could suffer for it... but even that is worth it and part of a truly memorable reading experience.

"How does he make his hands do that?" "Too much Fairport Convention in his youth..."

This novel was a good read, but it didn't rate up with the original anthologies of the Bordertown series. The raw edge in the original Bordertown series is lost in this novel. What was once raw has become placid and stale. The secondary characters were in no way as good as the multiple secondary characters in the short stories. The attitude of Finder and his characterization were lacking in believability. I felt more involved with the elf character of Tick-Tick; I don't know why I felt this way, but I did.

I felt Elsewhere was a better novel than Finder, even if it was rougher in writing style and not as smoothed around the edges. This book was too smooth to be from the Bordertown series.

Swept away 10 years ago by the Bordertown books, I was so happy to find a new one. "Finder" was an excellent mix of new story and faithful tryst with the past. We have all gotten older and Emma Bull has aged her characters and their lives in such a way as to be most believable while losing nothing of the magic and whimsy of the first Bordertown series. The dialog is sharp and refuses to let the reader off easy. I would reccomend that anyone who enjoys either S.F. or whodunnits read this book.

I was wandering through a bookstore three years ago with my then boyfriend and stumbled across a book called 'The War of the Oaks' by Emma Bull. I literally devoured this book, and have continued to re-read it twice a year. I was happy to discover that she wrote a short story for the Borderland books that I've had since I was fourteen (it's been 15 years since then, imagine that!) and then to my utter delight that she wrote another, 'Finder'.

Emma catches things in ways you can't imagine, she takes you in and you're there, at the Borderlands caught in this town between worlds. If you want to fully experience the Borderlands, search out the Music for it- Tempest's 'Serrated Edge', her own band or any other number of 'Celtic Rock'.

And if you fin 'War for the Oaks', buy it. It's out of print. It's worth it a thousand times over.