Phoenix and Ashes (Elemental Masters, Book 3)
2 journalers for this copy...
I enjoyed this one even more than I enjoyed The Wizard of London. One thing I like about these is that it doesn't matter if you read them out of order (which I am! Apparently I'm reading them backwards!)
From the back:
"Eleanor Robinson's life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married. Then the letter had come that told of her father's death in the trenches and though Eleanor thought things couldn't get any worse, her life took an even more bizarre turn.
Dragged to the hearth by her stepmother Alison, Eleanor was forced to endure a painful and frightening ritual during which the smallest finger of her left hand was severed and buried beneath a hearthstone. For her stepmother was an Elemental Master of Earth who practiced the darker blood-fueled arts. Alison had bound Eleanor to the hearth with a spell that prevented her from leaving home, caused her to fade from people's memories, and made her into a virtual slave. Months faded into years for Eleanor, and still the war raged. There were times she felt she was losing her mind - times when she seemed to see faces in the hearth fire.
Reginald Fenyx was a pilot. He lived to fly, and whenever he returned home from Oxford, the youngsters of the town would turn out to see him lift his aeroplane - a frail ship of canvas and sticks - into the sky and soar through the clouds.
During the war Reggie had become an acclaimed air ace, for he was an Elemental Master of Air. His Air Elementals had protected him until the fateful day when he had met another of his kind aloft, and nearly died. When he returned home, Reggie was a broken man plagued by shell schock, his Elemental powers vanished.
Eleanor and Reginald were two souls scourged by war and evil magic. Could they find the strength to help one another rise from the ashes of their destruction."
Lackey has done her historical research nicely, and the reader gets to see real growth by these characters. I'm definitely looking forward to reading the other titles in the series.
From the back:
"Eleanor Robinson's life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married. Then the letter had come that told of her father's death in the trenches and though Eleanor thought things couldn't get any worse, her life took an even more bizarre turn.
Dragged to the hearth by her stepmother Alison, Eleanor was forced to endure a painful and frightening ritual during which the smallest finger of her left hand was severed and buried beneath a hearthstone. For her stepmother was an Elemental Master of Earth who practiced the darker blood-fueled arts. Alison had bound Eleanor to the hearth with a spell that prevented her from leaving home, caused her to fade from people's memories, and made her into a virtual slave. Months faded into years for Eleanor, and still the war raged. There were times she felt she was losing her mind - times when she seemed to see faces in the hearth fire.
Reginald Fenyx was a pilot. He lived to fly, and whenever he returned home from Oxford, the youngsters of the town would turn out to see him lift his aeroplane - a frail ship of canvas and sticks - into the sky and soar through the clouds.
During the war Reggie had become an acclaimed air ace, for he was an Elemental Master of Air. His Air Elementals had protected him until the fateful day when he had met another of his kind aloft, and nearly died. When he returned home, Reggie was a broken man plagued by shell schock, his Elemental powers vanished.
Eleanor and Reginald were two souls scourged by war and evil magic. Could they find the strength to help one another rise from the ashes of their destruction."
Lackey has done her historical research nicely, and the reader gets to see real growth by these characters. I'm definitely looking forward to reading the other titles in the series.
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This was a RABCK from my dear friend Deenbat, in answer to my plaintive wail that every Lackey series I've read and loved also included a rape scene.
Thanks, Deenbat. :-)
This book does NOT include a rape scene, and has some interesting takes on elemental magic. But ugh, talk about a string of hackneyed "romance" clichés strung together for 468 pages. I read them all, but I didn't respect me in the morning. [I still respect you though Deenbat. I'm glad you liked it!]
Lackey is better than this. You're better than this, Mercedes!
It was worth the time, but not really recommended. And now it will go in the pile to be released and go make a new friend. :-)
Thanks, Deenbat. :-)
This book does NOT include a rape scene, and has some interesting takes on elemental magic. But ugh, talk about a string of hackneyed "romance" clichés strung together for 468 pages. I read them all, but I didn't respect me in the morning. [I still respect you though Deenbat. I'm glad you liked it!]
Lackey is better than this. You're better than this, Mercedes!
It was worth the time, but not really recommended. And now it will go in the pile to be released and go make a new friend. :-)
