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Title	:	Tinker (Elfhome #1)
Author	:	Wen Spencer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	1st Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2004 by Baen (first published October 1st 2003)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Science Fiction. Romance. Fiction. Magic. Fairies. Fae

Tinker (Elfhome #1) Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

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Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on what's really important — her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel-toed boots, and a junkyard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss.

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Original Title:	Tinker
ISBN:	0743498712 (ISBN13: 9780743498715)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.baenebooks.com/p-431-tinker.aspx
Series:	Elfhome #1
Setting:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania(United States)

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Ratings: 4.07 From 5044 Users | 372 Reviews

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This story lacks all depth beyond that of the characters' genitals.

I'm of two minds about Tinker. On the one hand, the concept and story are so unique, and fun, it made this book a page-turner. It's well thought out, and the world-building is amazing. As a result, I find myself picking this book up again and again. Tinker as a heroine is also a great character--unique both in personality and physical attributes, a brainy but petite offspring of a brilliant scientist who chooses to work in a junk yard with her brother.There are two reasons I deducted a star (so

There be spoilers ahead. You have been warned.I'd heard some good things about this book, so I decided to give it a try. I also knew the author was a fan of manga (and therefore presumably Japanese culture) beforehand. Cool. I adore manga too.Thing is, the concept is interesting. The whole piece-of-earth-in-foreign-realm idea got me absorbed in the first chapter. Trying to make sense of all the new terminology, figuring out the history, politics (especially the inter-species ones) was all great.

This book had a lot that I liked a great deal, but more that didn't work for me, and some stuff that made me outright uncomfortable.The basic set up is that the various mythologies of earth are a reflection of alternate universes. So elves are the inhabitants of one alternate universe, and other alternate universes contain creatures that also form the basis of other stories of earth. Earth found out about this by building a dimensional gate that as a side-effect takes part of a city into the

I made it to almost the halfway point and still didn't like the heroine at all. She didn't seem to have any deep emotions and was kind of flippant with others emotions. I got so tired of being hit over the head with how she doesn't know she's the hottest chick ever born. Maybe it's a first book thing, but I just couldn't get into it. To be fair, I highly associate elves with baking cookies in hollow trees and have a hard time seeing them as sexy.

Interesting in spite of the main character being a Mary Sue and her love interest being what some would consider 'every woman's elf fantasy'. (Not mine, btw.) This novel would have benefitted from better world-building and setting the scene in the first several chapters as I was still confused by the middle of the book.The villain was too evil for words, there is some pretty obvious racism in the 'evil' characters, and several parts were just too disturbingly weird for me. This book kept my

This was an okay book. I can't rate it higher because some of the stereotypes annoyed me.(view spoiler)[1) Insta-love with a mysterious elf. Mutual on both sides. Apparently she saved him years ago somehow as a kid? And he had been looking for her to protect her in exchange for her saving his life but I guess decided he'd rather boink her instead? Whatevs.2) All the dudes want Tinker for some reason. Even the one way too old for her, so old it was creepers, ugh. She even thought it was creepers.