This made three in a row dragon stories. Of course, these were Chinese dragons rather than western dragons. Still, it may be time to get back to murder or something.
Really a short story, not a novel - maybe a novella. According to Google a novella "usually lacks the subplots, the multiple points of view, and the generic adaptability that are common in the novel. It is most often concerned with personal and emotional development rather than with the larger social sphere." Okay, that works. They further state that it "generally retains something of the unity of impression that is a hallmark of the short story, but it also contains more highly developed characterization and more luxuriant description." Guess it really doesn't matter much, after all, Stephen King asserts that the novella is "an ill-defined and disreputable literary banana republic." On the other hand, Robert Silverberg calls it "one of the richest and most rewarding of literary forms." With such disparate opinion at such a level, I suppose I should just leave it alone. Isn't Google fun?
I am fairly certain that this character, one three seven (the demon king has so many wives that he doesn't bother to name them), has appeared in Chan's books featuring the Aussie girl Emma who has moved to Hong Kong and become involved with a pantheon of oriental gods. I would have to reread them to be certain.
This was released in close proximity to, if not in conjunction with, the release of the first book in the third trilogy of this series. Unlike any of the series novels, this story moves to happy ending (at least an implied happy ending) and still has a lot of sex - which seems to be Chan's tradmark.
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