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Changeling: The Dreaming
Pomegranates Full and Fine
Drawn to the changeling Court of Toronto to help her friend Riley organize a Highsummer party, Tango arrives to discover Riley missing. Her search for clues to his whereabouts leads her to a pack of Sabbat vampires on a grisly murder spree.
480 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1995
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About the author
Don Bassingthwaite
34 books51 followersDon lives with his partner in Toronto, surrounded by gadgets, spice jars, and too many books.
No, I don’t normally refer to myself in the third person. That’s the official author bio from the back of my most recent books. You want some other trivia?
I’m a fan of the serial comma.
I’m a huge fan of breakfast cereal.
I own one (and only one) stuffed animal — a Highland cow from Edinburgh named “Ewan MooGregor.”
I love Edinburgh and London — other large cities visited in the UK include Bath and Plymouth. I’ve also been to Cheddar where I ate a really good cheese sandwich.
I like cheese, especially hard and blue cheeses (Mmmm. Stilton.).
I look terrible in hats with the exception (for unknown reasons) of a few ball caps of particular colour and design.
I look good in rugby shirts, but don’t really own any as I neither play rugby nor follow the sport enough to feel honest buying the shirt of any particular team.
I don’t play or follow soccer either, but that didn’t stop me from choosing a “shirt team” in the last World Cup, wearing their shirt, and cheering for them in pubs. Go Netherlands!
To quote Paul S. Kemp, “Mmm. Beer.”
I have seriously considered buying a kilt. Update March 2008: The kilt has been bought!
Kilt, cow, and fondness for Edinburgh aside, I’m not Scottish.
More to come, I’m sure!
No, I don’t normally refer to myself in the third person. That’s the official author bio from the back of my most recent books. You want some other trivia?
I’m a fan of the serial comma.
I’m a huge fan of breakfast cereal.
I own one (and only one) stuffed animal — a Highland cow from Edinburgh named “Ewan MooGregor.”
I love Edinburgh and London — other large cities visited in the UK include Bath and Plymouth. I’ve also been to Cheddar where I ate a really good cheese sandwich.
I like cheese, especially hard and blue cheeses (Mmmm. Stilton.).
I look terrible in hats with the exception (for unknown reasons) of a few ball caps of particular colour and design.
I look good in rugby shirts, but don’t really own any as I neither play rugby nor follow the sport enough to feel honest buying the shirt of any particular team.
I don’t play or follow soccer either, but that didn’t stop me from choosing a “shirt team” in the last World Cup, wearing their shirt, and cheering for them in pubs. Go Netherlands!
To quote Paul S. Kemp, “Mmm. Beer.”
I have seriously considered buying a kilt. Update March 2008: The kilt has been bought!
Kilt, cow, and fondness for Edinburgh aside, I’m not Scottish.
More to come, I’m sure!
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December 14, 2022
No idea who's scoring this above a 2. Though I applaud the attempt at merging different worlds into one story let's face it; vampires are an easy sell. Fairies (changelings) and mages are not outside of fantasy. Interesting as an earlier example of urban fantasy, but little else, Pomegranates Full and Fine is a mixed bag at best. The plot weaves a changeling and vampire together but never effectively develops characters beyond stock NPC side quest lore. It has interesting moments but largely bores with its unnecessarily convoluted story featuring twists and turns you'll never really care about. And using the legendary Goblin Market as inspiration without truly connecting it to the story beyond snippets at the start of each chapter reveals it all for what it is; trailer park after school RPG sesh fiction.
May 31, 2015
I had wanted to read this book for more than 20 years, since I first read an excerpt in another WoD/ Changeling book. Finally, it arrived in my mailbox last week, and I had a chance to read most of it the last week-end, while queuing in a literary festival between conferences.
Ah well, I probably should have read it 20 years ago. While some passages interested me, and while this was, overall, a pleasant read, paced with action and intrigue so that you turn the pages, the lack of depth of the characters' psychology (and even descriptions: I never really envisioned how Tango looked like during most of the novel) made for a non-really believable story. And in this kind of books, the suspension of disbelief is all that matters.
Maybe it's also due to the fact that there is not enough Changeling in the book. Crossovers never really worked.
Yet, I wouldn't like to sound too harsh: while it's not one of the best WoD novels I have read, I still liked it.
Ah well, I probably should have read it 20 years ago. While some passages interested me, and while this was, overall, a pleasant read, paced with action and intrigue so that you turn the pages, the lack of depth of the characters' psychology (and even descriptions: I never really envisioned how Tango looked like during most of the novel) made for a non-really believable story. And in this kind of books, the suspension of disbelief is all that matters.
Maybe it's also due to the fact that there is not enough Changeling in the book. Crossovers never really worked.
Yet, I wouldn't like to sound too harsh: while it's not one of the best WoD novels I have read, I still liked it.
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February 28, 2008This came from my White Wolf novel craze.
January 13, 2018
Couldn't finish it. I love World of Darkness, but this book just couldn't hold my attention.
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