Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780765347770
ISBN number: 0765347776
Label: Tor Teen
Manufacturer: Tor Teen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: July 13, 2003
Publishing house: Tor Teen
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 386226
Studio: Tor Teen
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American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Welcome to Bordertown. A hybrid community of misfits, oddballs and runaways. Where humans, elves and halflings co-exist. Where magic and the brutal realities of survival clash and mix. For Orient and Tick-Tick, it's just home.
Death and dark magic hang ov er the city. A seductive new drug lures young runaways to their destruction. A mysterious plague spreads through the streets. And beneath the clock tower on High Street, Bonnie Prince Charlie lies slain by an unseen hand. A cop named Sunny Rico exploits Orient's talent for finding objects to track the killer and leads both herself and him into the darker secrets of Elflands' immigrant citizens.
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I've been a fan of Emma's since _War for the Oaks,_ and I'm enamored of the Borderlands stories, which are urban fantasy set in the uneasy crease between the human world and Faerie, which has returned suddenly to our plane of existence. Any city has teenage runaways who start their lives over among their own kind (their "kind" being, basically, "not parents"), but Bordertown gets both human and elvish runaways, plus "halfies" (a human-elf mix) and your occasional unique oddity like Wolfboy, who appears here in a supporting role. Orient is a finder. That's his talent: If something is known to exist, he can find it. He can't just tell you where it is, though (like "your keys are behind the couch") -- he has to actually follow his internal compass and go and find it personally. That's fine if someone is looking for a place to buy, say, heirloom tomato plant seeds, but suppose they're looking for a particular explosive device? In this case, he's asked by the police -- such as they are in Bordertown -- to locate the source of a new and extremely dangerous drug plaguing the city. Orient's very best friend and sort-of partner is Tick-Tick, an elvish girl his age in self-imposed exile from the storied lands beyond the Border, where humans literally cannot go. And when she takes ill, the search for the drug turns into something very much more. Besides having a knack for Chandler-esque dialogue, the author is terrific at constructing unusual characters and all of hers fit very nicely within the shared universe of the Borderlands. This is the third time I've read this book in the past twelve years and I expect to enjoy it yet again in the future.
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Totally compelling. I started this book yesterday and just finished it. Why is this woman not more of a household name? She deserves a gold star for her fun world - Bordertown, on the edge between Fairy and our world, where the laws of physics don't quite apply and the laws of magic go a little screwy too. What a great setting for the hard-boiled crime thriller she's written! Her characters are fun and as believable as her world (in other words: not so much, but we're willing to play along). If she succumbs to the temptation to create the fantasy coolness her adolescent self must have dreamed on (the perfect bar, the best bookstore, the hottest bike) , the stuff really is cool and I enjoy running down the fantasy with her, so she's forgiven this amateurish stroke. Plus, her writing is fluent, unpretentious, and startlingly good. She's particularly adept at giving each character a distinct and unique voice.
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I think this was a great book because it was not specific to a certain genre. It could be classified in any genre. It is a great book.
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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.
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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
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