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The Fire Rose (Elemental Masters, Bk 1)
The Fire Rose - Elemental Masters, Bk 1
Author: Mercedes Lackey
In 1905, Medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is left destitute when her father dies, forcing her to accept the offer that has mysteriously come her way of becoming a governess in San Francisco. But she arrives to find a house without children, a wife, or even an employer, only a terrible secret.
ISBN-13: 9780671319670
ISBN-10: 0671319671
Publication Date: 1/2/2001
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Baen
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This is a good, easy read version of Beauty and the Beast, with an ending I like better than any of the other versions I've read. Unlike Robin McKinley's Beauty, however, this is a little more adult, with many references to opium, the white slave trade, Chinese prostitutes, breaking in new girls, etc. No graphic descriptions, but one of the side characters is really into it & it comes up often. There are also many, many references to classical literature we're either supposed to understand or shrug off. It's distracting, but you don't need to understand them to keep up with the story.

Although this is book one in the series, it is not connected to the other books and can be read in any order.

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