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Cold Tom
by Sally Prue
Product Group: Book
Publisher: OUP Oxford (2002-11-07)
ISBN: 0192752723
EAN: 9780192752727
Paperback: 144 pages
Edition: New Ed
SKU: B344-1323
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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Strange and magical-a review without giving too much away...
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-08-06
2 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Having read the book i loved reading the reviews but would have hated to read them before i read it.
Cold Tom defies synopsis, its a short read and totally unputdownable. It is so original and wise. My advice is to read the book and just let the story happen, its much the best way.
Afterwards you want to pass it on to friends and you really want to know what they think.
Finally, if you love it i can recommend another two books with odd similarites, both by Dianna Wynne Jones. The power of three and Fire and Hemlock.
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A fascinating read for both adults and children
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-06-01
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Tom and his kind are cold in more ways than just physically. When his Tribe sees him as a danger to them, it is his own parents whose job it is to hunt him down and kill him. And Tom knows they will do just that if they catch him. He has no place to hide but the city of the demons, a noisy, smelly place of fast chariots and houses piled cheek by jowl. The demons are clumsy and loud-voiced. But worst of all, in Tom's eyes, are the ties that bind them to each other, while he is wild and free and determined to remain so. Tom wants nothing to do with the demons but but has no choice but to accept the help offered by a girl demon if he is to stay alive. And just because he isn't interested in the demons, it doesn't follow that they are not interested in him.The quote on the cover from Michael Morpurgo suggests this was Sally Prue's first novel. On the back the words "original, fascinating, dark splendour, chilling, inventive, haunting, impressive, compelling" are splattered among a constellation of silver stars and I wouldn't like to argue with any of them. This is quite a short novel but it's beautifully written and packs a lot into its 136 pages, especially about the condition of being human.
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Tam Lin from the other point of view
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-04-22
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was so good, I read it straight through at one go.
I have read many re-tellings of the Tam Lin/Thomas the Rhymer story, but never one from the point of view of the elves.
Cold Tom gets into the heart of the story and is utterly convincing - the interactions between Tribe and Humans are original in vision and poetic
in writing.
All fantasy/folk-lore readers should give this a try.
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Fierce and beautiful and intriguing
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-02-24
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
Tom is driven away from his home with the Tribe, and into the city of the 'demons' - who of course are us, humans. The story follows Tom's attempts to make sense of the human world and the ties which bind people one to another. The best thing about this book is the fierce beauty of the writing - it's deceptively readable and simple, but carries a world of depth and meaning. At one level it's just a gripping story of Tom's struggle to find his place in the world, but it's so much more than that, too. I loved it.
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A wonderful, original novel
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-01-10
8 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is an incredibly original, breathtaking book. It left me thinking about love, families, and what makes us human - and has given me food for thought for a long time.
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