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Things havenšt been the same in Cleveland since a portal opened above the football stadium (during a Browns game) and dragons, unicorns, elves, fairies, gnomes, dwarves, gargoyles ... you name it, came wandering through. A dragon meets his death by crash landing into the Cuyahoga River and Kline Maxwell, City Hall reporter for the Cleveland Press, has been assigned to the case. The regular reporter who usually covers the fuzzy gnome stories has a bad case of eyeballs growing all over his body. He must stay out of Portal territory for awhile. Maxwell quickly discovers that the death of the dragon was no accident and his adventure into the world of the portal and magic begins. THE DRAGONS OF THE CUYAHOGA is pure rock them, sock them fun. There is a litt le of something for everyone ... politics, secret police, kidnapping, murder and magic. One of the arts of writing a successful fantasy mystery is to make the world and everything that happens in it seem normal and Swann accomplishes this. The cast of characters is varied and appealing and Maxwell has a crusading social spirit. Swann builds the tension and the novel ends in a somewhat surprising but pleasing way. Fans of Jim Butcher and Tanya Huff should give Swann a try. Swann has also written a series featuring Nohar Rajasthan, a moreau -- a descendant of genetically manipulated tiger stock -- a second class citizen in a human world. Nohar is a retired private eye. Like THE DRAGONS OF THE CUYAHOGA, these novels can be read just for fun or the reader can dig deeper and take a look at the social issues the world deals with daily.
Reviewed by Lane Wright, March 2003
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