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Summary: girlpower! yeah!
Review: where to start??? alright, i got it... this book kicked booty! beyond that there's really not too much to say. it was a really good concept for a book. mercedes lackey (what a cool name!) is honestly one of the greatest writers of all time.don't just read this book, read all of them. peace out!
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Summary: Subpar
Review: The Fire Rose is a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story. The Beauty is Rosalind Hawkins, a penniless bluestocking scholar in turn-of-the-century America. The Beast is Jason Cameron, a rail baron and Firemaster (aka magician), who performed a magical spell he could not control and was left in half-wolf form.Lackey, like McCaffrey, has an innate storytelling ability that keeps you reading even as you ask yourself why. The story was very choppy: slow in the beginning and then very hurried during the important parts so that you don't really identify with Rosalind's love for Jason. All-in-all, a disappointment.
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Summary: Fun!
Review: This story of a San Francisco governess and a magician turned werewolf is an entertaining blend of magic and love. Lacky manages to steer clear of the Disneyfication that could have cropped up in the tale. Alongside the archetypal fairy tale are Chinatown whorehouses and the genral squaller of the seedier part of San Fransisco circa the early 2oth century. Recomended for those times when your head has been buried in Crowley for three weeks and feels as though its about to explode!
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Summary: A Magical Tale...
Review: Rosalind (Rose), a university student in the 1800s, has just lost her home and is about to accept a strange offer from Jason Cameron, who she soon finds out is a "man" who can work magic--(elementals: air, fire, water, earth)...Her new life is wonderful--great pay, great house, magical servants,books, everything she could possibly want...This is a delightful beauty and the beast story with Misty Lackey's style weaved in with magic and fairy tale. :)
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Summary: Cute!
Review: I reread this book recently (two days ago) and it occured to me, when I was reading it, what a delightful book it really is. The characters, while occasionally stereotypical, are fairly well-fleshed out, and the main love story is intriguing. What I really liked was how well they thought everything out before doing anything -- it showed their trains of thought admirably well. The mix of history and fiction was nice, as was her "creation" of a "new" type of magic, involving mythical being that the magician controlls -- Salamanders, Undines, Sylphs, and Gnomes. It, of course, did what historical fantasy loves to do: come up with supernatural explanations for historical events. This comes highly recommended, not as James Joyce style fare, but as a very amusing and "aww, isn't that cute! " read.
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Summary: Breezy and Light...a little too Breezy
Review: While I enjoy Lackey's work, I found this one to be quite a disappointment. The characters seemed undeveloped and inane. It fit more into a gothic romance genre than fantasy even though it had its fair share of sorcery. The book was overall entertaining though. My biggest complaint is the climax. It just seemed to rush by too fast...almost as if Lackey was being timed by the clock to wrap it up quickly. As a result, the end leaves you with an unsatisfied feeling at the pit of your stomach and a whirlwind of thoughts which make you wonder, "What the heck just happened?" Oh well...although this book didn't live up to my expectations for Lackey, I will still continue to read her works.
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful!
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK! I could not put this book down, I read it through in one night, then I HAD to go back and reread the best parts, it was that good. I highly recomend this book.
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Summary: Fantastic Historical Fantasy!
Review: I may not be a scholar of early American history, but it didn't matter. Reading this book transported me to a time when Americans weren't much removed from the manners and ideas of England, but with a twist: Magic. Based on both fantasy and on very 'logical' premises that mirror real spiritual-magical systems, the novel is a tale of romance and deception that, in spirit, rivals the sweet tales actually penned a century ago. It's very believable and definately a page-turner. I love pure fantasy most of all, but I'm hard pressed to rate it below Misty's (Lackey's) vaunted Valdemar series. She really outdid herself on this one.
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Summary: One of Lackey's best heroines meets her most unusal hero
Review: I picked up this book on a whim... and ended up with two copies of it (one for me, one to hand around to my friends!) Rose is not your average heroine (she has read the unexpurgate Ovid, the love-poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original... she knows in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and she can quote it to you in Latin or in her own translation...you get the idea), and she is certainly no shrinking violet when she comes to a new employer, a turn-of-the-century rail baron Firemaster whose spell gone wrong has left him half-human, half-wolf. An intriguing and fun story which has a hint of Beauty and the Beast within a well-written and wonderful story of Magick. Watch for the salamanders and the sylphs... who have a personality all their own! Fabulous!
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Summary: I LOVE IT!
Review: This is my all time favourite book. ive read it about 3 or 4 times (and im gonna again). i like it cause its not that far fetched but its not totally down to earth either....its kind of a balance between the two.....i really have no complaints about this book..but good scenes..very good description..characters had flaws which is VERY good...overall VERY good book.
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