Finder: A Novel of the Borderlands

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

Somewhere there exists the city known as Bordertown. Once part of The World as we know it, the lands of the Faerie have encroached -- magic and technology share a sporadic and uneasy co-existence. And it is here that Emma Bull takes us -- to follow the lives of Orient, Tick-Tick and Sunny Rico. One part murder mystery, one part drama, one part thriller, one part tragic romance, Finder mixes all of these to a smooth whole. Orient, the title character, is a young man with a tragic past; then again, everyone in Bordertown has some pain in their background. It's the one thing all the citizens have in common. He and his best friend, Tick-Tick, the Elf, stand shoulder to shoulder against the rising tide of prejudice surrounding the murder of Bonnie Prince Charlie and subsequent events. Bull gives tantalizing glimpses into Orient's past, Tick-Tick's, as well as that of Sunny Rico, making them seem more acquaintances you've lost touch with than merely characters in a novel. Their pain is tangible. The story is gripping; the ending bittersweet and far too soon. Finder leaves you wanting more

I picked up Finder without having read any "Borderlands" stories. Not knowing waht to expect, I was overcome by the story. I fell in love with the characters immediately. The humor was infectious, the mystery exciting, and the relationship between Orient & Tick Tick, and it's outcome, literally broke my heart. This is a book not only for sci-fi and fantasy buffs, but for everyone who loves the possibilty of magic and believes in love and friendship

Emma Bull suprises you. She continually finds new paths to explore and new emotions for the reader to experience. FINDER literally takes a fantasy realm and drops it into your backyard to explore. Within she mixes a werewolf, an absent-minded artist, an elven mechanical genius, and our hero, whose talent for finding things cannot help him in a crisis where his courage and his friends are all he has. What is best about her books is that in 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.