The Fire Rose

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Summary: Immensely Readable
Review: Fire Rose is a wonderful read. The characters are well-defined, and the plot is smooth and logical. Lackey is a fine storyteller, and she continues with this delightful story. The heroine is smart and spunky, the hero is brave and flawed, and the bad guy is wonderfully evil. It is a tale filled with magicks and desire. All these elements make it a book that you will read into the early morning hours and not regret a single moment of lost sleep.

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Summary: Tied for the best book I have ever read!
Review: I have been an all-the-way Mercedes Lackey fan since I first read one of her books. Every single one has been unbeleivably fantastic, but this is great story-telling taken to a new level! Although if you really sat down and thought about it, the plot is rather predictable, but as you read it, you have no idea what's going to happen next. This isn't a classic tale of Beauty and the Beast, where both hero and heroine are impeccable, perfect people. Here, it was Jason's own hubris which brought him down! No, these are all but real characters, who you can really relate to. Mercedes Lackey's new and original (an original concept of magic; almost unbeleivable!) way of "Magick" is so astouding in its perfect detail that you begin to wonder if Lackey herself is a magician! And, it touches a place deep inside every one of us that hopes, dreams we have that potential to become special. A magnificent accomplishment.

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Summary: great book! go out and buy it if you haven't already!
Review: This is, in my opinion, one of the best of Ms. Lackey's latest works, and in fact, for pure readability might even rival some of her earlier books. I have reread it several times since I bought it...the first time I read it I couldn't put it down. Even though the plot is a little predictable, being based on a fairy tale, she manages to produce believable characters one can sympathise with, which is the most wonderful aspect of this book. Go out and buy it if you haven't already!

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Summary: Fun for Beauty and the Beast lovers
Review: I love just about every version of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale that I've ever come across, and so it's no surprise that I couldn't put this one down. But it's more fluffy than substantial. If you're looking for a "think" novel, this is not the one.

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Summary: Fantasy fairy-tales: a triumph!
Review: A fantasy of a retold fairy-tale that will thoroughly grab your attention, this book incorporates original fantasy in the form of Fire, Air, Water and Earth Elementals as well as wonderful characters. The heroine of this story is a unique woman who is a believable character for her un-womanly characteristics of learning in the early 1900's. Portrayed well by Lackey as a scholar who is interested as well in material things, the main character learns to cope with her own magic, creating a fabulous book. Another must-read by Lackey

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Summary: great read
Review: as a longtime fan of mercedes lackey, this was a nice change from the valdemar series and the diana tregarde investigations. although i'd like to see more of dt and her escapades. rose is a very postitive role model for all women ... don't let anyone prevent you from chasing your dreams. even if they include finding the man of your dreams along the way

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Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: Mercedes lackey has got to be the best author around. This book soars to new hights. The plot is fast paced and wonderfully suspencefull. It excells in it's hroine, Rosalind Hawkins. This is a sure read. Ive read five times since I got it for christmas (96) and I could read it a thousand times over. So go out and buy it if you havent allready

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Summary: Been there, read that Melodrama
Review: I used to be a die hard Lackey fan. FIREROSE taught me that Lackey must be overworked. I just cannot believe how a talented writer as Ms.Lackey can turn out such melodramtic drivel as THE FIREROSE. Predictable characters such as the noble and virtuous but poor as a church mouse Miss Rose...how trite! Was anyone really surprised by the turn of events? Beauty meets Beast. Love conquers all. The hero saves the day...and the city! It was a typical formula for a Victorian melodrama in every way. At least Lackey got that part right

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Summary: Captivating period tale of learning and love
Review: This book is not the typical Beauty meets Beast love story. It goes beyond that, becoming a story of education of the mind, and of the soul. A young woman, who recently lost her father to time, gets an offer that no sane woman would refuse. She recieves notice that a woman, with her scholarly qualifiactions is needes to take care of two precocious children. She accepts the offer, but upon arrival finds the circumstances to be much changed. There are no children, but there is someone desperately in need of her knowledge, and unbeknownest to either of them, her heart as well

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Summary: A must read!
Review: Mercedes Lackey does it again in this wonderful variation of the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Straying from her Valdemar series, Mercedes does an awesome job (again)