So I ordered a book online the other day, because it’s been a while, and I have a long bus journey almost every morning which needs to be filled with something. I figured it was about time I got some fantasy fiction down my throat which wasn’t written by Isabelle Carmody, so I ordered a replacement copy of a book I had a while ago and lost –Poison, by Chris Wooding.

I tend to prefer Chris Wooding’s young adult stuff to his adult fiction for some reason. In fact the same is true for most of the fantasy I read. The teenagers just seem to get a more interesting deal out of fantasy than we do. If I want serious, well written sci-fi or drama or whatever then I tend to go for adult books (though truth be told I haven’t read nearly enough adult science fiction books... I don't even know much Asimov. The latest I’ve tried to read is The Algebraist, and I had to stop that pretty early on, because the chapter with the guys head attached to life support specifically so another guy could beat the snot out of it on a regular basis kind of... freaked me out. Yeah I'm a wimp.

But anyway. Poison. Is a good book. One of those which takes much of it's content from mythologies, the story is basically about a girl going to recover her sister who was stolen by faeries. I didn’t originally expect much from a book that started with the words “Once Upon a Time”... but I was proven gladly mistaken. Wooding really knows how to break the rules. Poison was really enjoyable the first time I read it, and I felt a bit sore about losing the book. So I decided “what the hell?” and ordered a new copy. I’m a sucker for hardbacks, and decided to go for one which looked like it had a variant cover because it looked nicer than the paperback edition. Just yesterday my book arrived through the post much to my delight, until I opened the package and saw the blurb...

...In German.

Sigh.

So any native Germans on this website who enjoy Chris Wooding?