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Title	:	The Fire Rose (Elemental Masters #0)
Author	:	Mercedes Lackey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 433 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1996 by Baen (first published January 1st 1995)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Romance. Fiction. Magic. Historical. Historical Fiction

The Fire Rose (Elemental Masters #0) Paperback | Pages: 433 pages

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This adaptation of Beauty and the Beast cuts out the merchant father and sisters mourning their sudden impoverishment. Instead of a formerly-wealthy beauty, our heroine is the recently-orphaned daughter of a professor. Highly educated herself, but lacking family or funds, she perforce accepts a position as a governess in far-away California. But it turns out there are no children, only a Beast who needs someone to translate some dead languages... This was a fun book. It would be better if Lackey weren't so infernally heavy-handed. Her villain, especially, is painted so uniformly black that there is no nuance. He is greedy! and shallow! and full of treachery! He likes to beat and rape virgins! He hates foreign food (cuz he's a racist; good guys in this universe always love the curry). One begins to question how the supposedly-smart master wizard was taken in by this piece of offal for so long. Of course, this is a wizard so skilled he accidentally turned himself into an alsatian... A flawed book, but one that may be entertaining to readers with a penchant for fairy-tales retellings, the theory of the elements, or turn of the century settings.

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Original Title:	The Fire Rose (Elemental Masters, #0)
ISBN:	067187750X (ISBN13: 9780671877507)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Elemental Masters #0

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One of my favorite books. Loved it on audio.

This book felt rather like it was written by a teenaged girl as Beauty and the Beast fanfiction without an editor. The villain was totally one dimensional and stupid. There were glaring gaps in continuity and so many plots that were started but not properly followed up upon. The worst example was a Chinese herbalist who gives Rose four packets of four different colors and then she uses the wrong colored packet in the next scene and the other three packets are never mentioned again.But despite

Should I even get into the one dimensional Paul du Mond? The entire book, I was waiting for him to tie Rosalind to Cameron's railroad tracks, and then twist his mustache while laughing mockingly: "MWAH-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!" It's the only cliche the author missed including.I loved Mercedes Lackey in college but sometime in my 30s I became tired of her simplistic characters, and especially of the chip she has on her shoulder regarding organized religion. If I had to read one more time that non-orthodox

Quick back story: I bought the second and third books in the series by accident in Hawaii on vacation with my family when I was in 9th grade. I came home from vacation with more books than I had taken with me. It was awesome.Anyway, found out by just searching Mercedes Lackey that there was actually 1) more books in the series (woot!), and 2) theres an actual first book that I overlooked! *gasp*I love Rose. I love how fiesty she is, I love how she's so decisive and tries to take charge of her

Retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Was a good read, but last chapter felt like a letdown after all the buildup. Ended with a fizzle rather than a bang. Also, I don't know what the blurb writer was smoking, but "Jason's enemy offers to restore Rosalind's family fortune if she will betray Jason" was not in the book.

I love this book. It's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, set in San Francisco just prior to the Great Earthquake of 1906. As always, her characters are so real that I felt like they were friends immediately: smiling with them, nodding when they talked. . . . You just get drawn right into this time and these people.

This book is set in the early 20th century. Rose Hawkins is a young scholar in Chicago who finds herself having to make some tough decisions after her father dies and creditors take nearly everything she has left. With no other options left to her, she accepts a position as a governess for the children of Jason Cameron, a wealthy rail baron in San Francisco. When she arrives at her new home and workplace, she discovers that Cameron wasn't entirely truthful. While he doesn't actually have