Phoenix and Ashes
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780756401610 (0756401615)
Publish date: October 5th 2004
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Pages no: 405
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Urban Fantasy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Fairy Tales,
Retellings
Series: Elemental Masters (#4)
Really like this as a Cinderella re-telling. The "let me explain my magic system now" moment was a little meh, but IC for the character in question.
Really like this as a Cinderella re-telling. The "let me explain my magic system now" moment was a little meh, but IC for the character in question.
Now this was a good read. A retelling of the cinderella story during World War I. Typically for an urban fantasy of this class you have magicians on both sides working for and against the British Cause. There was perhaps a little bit of lecturing about the class changes post WWI but it wasn't the...
Take one part Cinderella (with hints of Harriet Potter), one part All Quiet on the Western Front, one part Downton Abbey, and one part alchemy, and mix well.This is the story of Eleanor (Ellie) Robinson, a girl who has been enslaved by her evil stepmother upon her father's death, and of Reggie Fenyx...
Lackey does much better with the World War One stuff than she does with the "ooooh mixing of cultures" stuff she maunders through in some of the other books. Some of it is quite touching, and I'm such a sucker for the fairy tale hurt/comfort of deprivation/luxury (or even basic creature comforts) th...
11 years ago
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