tea with the black dragon

[hitchhiker]

McAvoy's Tea With the Black Dragon was a charming and delightful fantasy novel (Jo Walton's review is good, as usual), but it was very subtly fantastic; you could well imagine all the fantasy elements stripped out and it would barely change, and remain a perfectly nice romance/action/adventure novel set in the 1980s Bay Area. And yet, the fantasy elements were absolutely what I liked about it, and gave the rest of it a magical feel that was a large part of what made it such an engaging book.

Tangentially, it was amusing to read it shortly after reading this comic :)