by Mercedes Lackey
My first Mercedes Lackey book! Unfortunately, I didn’t like it. I liked BITS of it, including the fairy tale-ness of it, but it wasn’t as magically wonderful as I was hoping it’d be. I did like the twist at the end (although it was totally obvious) and I liked the writing style, so I’ll definitely r...
Mostly descriptive, as is often Lackey's tendancy. Very little action for the length. The Firebird appears for the first time around page 75 and is barely glimpsed, then does not reappear or speak till more than 200 pages in. I found Ilya uninteresting as a protagonist and have no idea what the bird...
Interesting. The synopsis is not exactly accurate, no. The H's father and brothers never knew about the firebird, so how could they possibly try to trap her?The story is technically a romance I guess, and told entirely from the H's POV - an interesting change there. His encounters with the firebi...
Well, Livejournal decided to be nasty today and deleted my whole review that I had originally written for this. I have no why idea why it did this, but now I'm annoyed and going to keep this review very short because I don't feel like re-typing everything I just worked on (in vain.)It's all right th...
Once again, Mercedes Lackey takes us to the ballet while touching on the fairytale basis for the story (the book is dedicated to Natalia Marakova [sic], the Russian prima ballerina whose surname is actually spelled Makarova).The Firebird is an enchanted princess in Russian lore; she steals cherries ...
Ooooooo, this is a book from the time when Mercedes Lackey used to write LESS than four books a year and I used to really love her books.It is wonderful, wonderful retelling of classic russian fairy tale. It is not done in subversive style a la Wicked, you will not be sympathizing with the villans h...
Better than much of Lackey's work, this novel retells the Russian legend of the Firebird (with plenty of editorial embellishment). Ilya, a handsome Russian prince with a habit of womanizing, seems like he has everything going for him – except that his seven lunkhead brothers want to kill him, and th...
I LOVE a phoenix story. This is a wonderful take from Ms. Lackey involving a firebird which is really a phoenix in my book. This is a lovely story told in an old school fairy tale fashion. If you like quests, heroes and mythical creatures, this is a book for you.
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