Reserved for the Cat
Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to...
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Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success she?s been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit?a far more threatening one?and the young dancer must once again turn to her mysteriously powerful four-legged furry friend.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780756404888 (0756404886)
ASIN: 756404886
Publish date: October 7th 2008
Publisher: DAW
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: Elemental Masters (#6)
These books. They're. They're just not good. And yet I keep reading. Sigh.
Ugg, I don't think I could ever feel sympathetic to someone who is an identity thief. I don't care if the person she stole the identity from was really an evil elemental or whatever, she didn't know that at the time. It was still wrong. There was no one who was sympathetic in the entire novel.
I am quite fond of the Elemental Masters series, with their nods to classic fairy tales (in this case, Puss in Boots).Parisian ballerina Ninette Dupond loses her position in the Paris Ballet when the prima ballerina, for whom she understudies, becomes upset with her due to attention from a wealthy p...
Pretty much the same as other books by Mercedes Lackey. Minimal plot action, same themes, political points, and character personalities as her other books in this series. Nothing new or surprising going on.
Non-specific spoilers below.While parts of the book were entertaining and a few of the characters endearing, one big thing kept this book at a "3" rather than a "4" or a "5." For me, Ms. Lackey is over-fond of the villain who takes over someone else's body/life. In thirty seconds, I can think of te...
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