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Chargement... Blood Red (The Elemental Masters Book 9) (original 2014; édition 2014)par Mercedes Lackey (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreBlood Red par Mercedes Lackey (2014)
  
Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  zjakkelien | Jan 2, 2024 |   In the Prologue, young Rosamund has an encounter with a rogue werewolf when she goes to her teacher's house in the world. She uses her untrained magic to call for help and the Hunt Master of the local white lodge comes to her rescue. He recognizes her talents and takes her with him to be raised and trained in his lodge. When the story begins, Rosamund is the first female Hunt Master and is traveling to Romania because the locals have called for help to get rid of some werewolves. On her way back to the Schwarzwald, she stops in to visit a friend of her adopted father. This Fire Master is a noble who offers to teach her how to get along in society and also to introduce her to the masters of other lodges who might need her services. When the meets two Elemental Magicians who have come from Hungary asking for help, she joins forces with them despite the fact that one is a heriditary werewolf. She has heard that there are benign werewolves, but she's never met one herself until now. Most of what she hunts are werewolves gone rogue. As the three travel into Hungary in search of the villain who has caused hundreds of deaths over the past forty years, they find a problem much bigger than they had anticipated and need to use all their strengths to defeat this powerful evil being. I like the 19th century setting for this story. The descriptions of the scenery and societies were detailed and colorful. I liked the growing friendship between Rosamund and the two Elemental magicians. I liked that this was a coming of age story which allows Rosamund to expand her world and her options. (  ) kmartin802 | Jan 30, 2023 | Blood Red is a masterful work, set in the Black Forests of Germany and the mysterious mountains of Transylvania. All of the smells of peasant and city life arise from the pages of the book. Rosamond Von Schwartvard, a young woman raised in the Black Forest, discovers herself to be an Earth Elemental Master upon being attacked at a young age. Rosa, as she comes to be known as, is raised by the Brotherhood of the forest. She becomes a very powerful Master, and the first female leader of the Hunt. As Rosa's mentor, Graf, sees her immense potential, she is introduced to a Fire Master who trains her in the finer arts of fitting into society and strengthens her mastery of her Earth Magic. From this point on, Rosa's life changes dramatically. All of her skills are tested as she faces evil in it's most horrifying form. Thundering to the conclusion of the book, unsure of Rosa's survival, you'll bite off every fingernail. ( ) Windyone1 | May 10, 2022 |  ) wyvernfriend | Aug 17, 2021 | It was a fun read, don’t get me wrong. But I saw few to no flaws in the main character, and that makes for a boring story. Rosa, by the time we really get to meet her, is already a kick-ass monster hunter, with lots of tools and weapons to help make her job easier. She has mastered her magic. Her only hang-up is with werewolves: she has a hard time believing that any werewolves can be good. So when she meets someone she’s been told is a good werewolf, she has a bit of a “what should I do?” moment, and that’s about it. Even when she runs into the Big Bad Wolf, so to speak, she’s had no problems with any of her other adversaries so far, so there’s no belief in the reader’s mind that she might be in trouble this time, either. I still recommend this to fans of the series, or to people who are huge fans of the fairy tale. However, don’t expect an awesome read with this one. It’s a fun read, maybe a beach read. If that’s all you’re expecting, you’ll be fine. (  ) ca.bookwyrm | May 18, 2020 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieElemental Masters (10) Appartient à la série éditorialeDAW Book Collectors (1653)
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The ninth novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines the fairy tale Red Riding Hood in a richly-detailed alternate Victorian world Rosamund is an Earth Master in the Schwarzwald, the ancient Black Forest of Germany. Since the age of ten, she has lived with her teacher, the Hunt Master and Earth Magician of the Schwarzwald Foresters, a man she calls ??Papa.? Her adoptive Papa rescued her after her original Earth Master teacher, an old woman who lived alone in a small cottage in the forest, was brutally murdered by werewolves. Rosa herself barely escaped, and this terrifying incident molded the course of her future. For like her fellow Earth Masters of the Schwarzwald Lodge, Rosa is not a healer. Instead, her talents lead her on the more violent path of protection and defense?? ??cleansing? the Earth and protecting its gentle fae creatures from those evil beings who seek to do them harm. And so Rosa becomes the first woman Hunt Master and the scourge of evil creatures, with a deadly specialty in werewolves and all shapeshifters. While visiting with a Fire Master??a friend of her mentor from the Schwarzwald Lodge?? Rosa meets a pair of Elemental Magicians from Hungary who have come looking for help. They suspect that there is a dark power responsible for a string of murders happening in the remote countryside of Transylvania, but they have no proof. Rosa agrees to help them, but there is a catch: one of the two men asking for aid is a hereditary werewolf. Rosa has been taught that there are three kinds of werewolves. There are those, like the one that had murdered her teacher, who transform themselves by use of dark magic, and also those who have been infected by the bite of these magical werewolves??these poor victims have no control over their transformative powers. Yet, there is a third kind: those who have been born with the ability to transform at will. Some insist that certain of these hereditary werewolves are benign. But Rosa has never encountered a benign werewolf! Can she trust this Hungarian werewolf? Or is the Hunter Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book follows one of those typical Lackey things, where she describes the more mundane tasks in some detail (general living and working arrangements and such), but I like joining the protagonist in organizing her world,so I don't mind. I suspect it's part of the reason so many Lackey's become re-reads for me. I have no doubt this one will too... (