Showing posts with label Elemental Magicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elemental Magicians. Show all posts
Thursday, January 3, 2013

As war ravages the Continent, black magic is left to fester in the countryside

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Fairy tales weren't always Disney-inspired fripperies. Many of them were cautionary tales at their heart, or even just involving the da...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

When two people steal the same name, conflicts generally occur

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A cat - who might be more than he appears - helps a young ballerina from France make it big in England in Mercedes Lackey's sixth Elemen...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Even Lord Alderscroft was a young man once.

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Any good series starts somewhere in the middle.  It's impossible to go into everyone's backstory right from the beginning.  So while...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

War and death cause dark magic to flourish

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The Great War creates problems throughout both mundane and magical Europe in  Mercedes Lackey 's fourth  Elemental Masters  novel,  Pho...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

A liberated Sleeping Beauty would battle her wicked aunt in the dream world

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While this is the 3rd book in the Elemental Masters series, it is certainly accessible to first time readers of the series.  While there are...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

When a beauty named Rose meets a half-man, half-beast in early 1900s San Francisco...

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Books based on fairy tales tend to be a very relaxing type of story.   We already know the basic structure that it will have. The settings o...