Customer Reviews
Emma's the only writer who can make me cry - By: , 03 Aug 1999 
I was wandering through a bookstore three years ago with my then boyfriend & stumbled across a book called 'The War of the Oaks' by Emma Bull. I literally devoured this book, & 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!) & then to my utter delight that she wrote another, 'Finder'.
Emma catches thingsin ways you can't imagine, she takes youin & you're there, at the Borderlands caughtin 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.
wow. got a lot more than i expected - By: , 03 Jun 1999 thought it would just be a fun book to read, nothing gripping or plot wrenching like tolkien or brooks or other fantasy writers. then bam it hits you full on the mix of magic & tech sort of like rock, cafes, magic mixing. someplace that seems so real & desireable. the story i expected to be just a casual story turned out to have all the things i lovein a sci fi/fantasy mixed in,in a new way. i just didn't expect it but boy it was great. if you read one bordertown story read finder.
help! Orient, where are you when I need you?? - By: , 24 Aug 1998 
I mean, really. I never thought it was possible to crush on a fictional character, until I read "Finder." If I could somehow slip into Bookworld--where all the worldsin books are real--I'd head straight for Bordertown (after a lengthy visit to Pern, perhaps) so I could marry Orient. I mean, he's perfect! He's handsome, he's friends with the best mechanicin the universe (vive Tick Tick!), you'd never lose anything again, & hey! he's even Jewish. Dig this: we have here the only man who could possibly locate the socks that disappearin the dryer! Hmmmm. OK, sex drives aside, this is a fun book. Bordertown: a sleek, hip world where magic melds with technology & bohemians dabble with royalty. (Kinda makes me homesick for NYC, mmmm?) Anyway, the Elves have returned...and they're cool, not a jot like the deified Tolkien-esque elves foundin epic fantasies nowdays. Orient, our hero, is a fugitive from the regular world, who has found Bordertown a haven from his dark, secret past. He's friends with Tick Tick, a runaway elven princess who is the best mechanic known to man, a werewolf named Wolfboy (who starsin "Elsewhere" & "Never Never" by Will Shetterly, which were fun but not great), & a determined, mysterious cop named Sunny Rico. Anyway, the book centers around a mystery--some strange disease is turning humans into elves & killing real elves--and how Orient comes to grips with his past. Fast-paced, sleek dialogue, interesting characters, cool locale, strong plot, & Orient. Definately a great find! (Sorry about that last 8-)!)
Emma Bull is really coming into her own. - By: , 26 Jul 1998 Wow! Emma Bull knows what magic is & isn't, & what life is like on the border between Seen & Unseen. A simple but fresh mystery story setin a dark city that is half fantasy & half gritty streets. I loved it. I'll read it again.
Evocative and magical-with sharp edges and great talent. - By: , 28 Jan 1997 Emma Bull suprises you. She continually finds new paths to explore & new emotions for the reader to experience.
FINDER literally takes a fantasy realm & drops it into your backyard to explore. Within she mixes a werewolf, an absent-minded artist, an elven mechanical genius, & our hero, whose talent for finding things cannot help himin a crisis where his courage & his friends are all he has.
What is best about her books is thatin a few lines she makes you care about the people within; you may love, pity, or despise some of them-but you won't be indifferent about any of them.
