Blood Red

by Lackey, Mercedes
ISBN: 9780756409852
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Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series recasts familiar fairy tales in a richly-imagined 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 shape-shifters.

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 transforma-tive powers. Yet, there is a third kind: those who have been born with the ability to trans-form 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 destined to become the Hunted?

  • Format: MassMarketPaperback
  • Author: Lackey, Mercedes
  • ISBN: 9780756409852
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 6.90 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 320
  • Publication Year: 2015

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  • Blood Red continues the tradition of the Elemental Masters Series.

    Jason W. - 3 years 10 months ago

    Book 10 of the Elemental Masters series (which begins with book 1-The Fire Rose) delivers another tale spawned from an old fairytale and taken to the next level. Rosamund is an Earth Master, which means she has magical abilities tied to the element of earth, unlike others who use air, fire or water. Most earth mages are tied into healing powers, but Rosamund is all about using her power to stomp the bad guys. Her tale begins much like Little Red Riding Hood, then goes to a whole different kind of werewolf hunting tale as the little girl scared of the big bad wolf grows up to be a magic-wielding, gun-toting gal who cares little for conventional or traditional female roles. Her practical and laid-back attitude might scare off some nobles, but it keeps her grounded and able to be realistic about what is going on around her. She tries to remain demure and proper in public, but when really nasty creatures are doing unspeakable things and people are in peril, she trades in her skirts for pants, straps on her guns, jumps on a horse and rides out hell-bent for leather to the rescue.

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