SMH Spectrum Review of Blood Ties
October 21st, 2007  

The following review appeared in the the Sydney Morning Herald on 20th October 2007.

Democracy in action for the dispossessed

HERE IS AN impressively different fantasy novel, challenging one of the most deep-seated and inappropriate fantasy conventions. Why is the monarchy the political default mode of contemporary fantasy? Why do fantasy heroes and heroines risk all to restore the rightful king? What happened to democracy in the mass-market field?

Blood Ties doesn’t try to answer those questions – it disdainfully sweeps them aside and seeks to democratise itself from the core.

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Review by Van Iken.

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