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    <body><![CDATA[Once more Mercedes Lackey manages to enchant me throughout the novel. It's been years since I read Elemental Masters 1 &amp; 2 but by the first few pages, I was sucked back into that world and thoroughly loving the adventures. I didn't realize until I looked up Mercedes Lackey on wikipedia that the EMs ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66431904">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Lackey's &quot;Sleeping Beauty.&quot;  I loved the replacement of the fairy aunts with the artist's colony.  I was laughing my head off when she finally got the chance to 'become a lady' and was absolutely miserable.  M set his about 1890 in England, so the suffagist movement and the backlas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50358460">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this one much better than the first book by Lackey that I read. This one is set in Victorian England and revolves around a community of magicians, true magicians, who deal in natural elements. What I liked most about it was the way in which the magic was made to seem like nothing out of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16960398">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second of this series, or I thought it was the second. I shall have to find out which one is first.<br/>Another enjoyable story. This time an imaginative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. How nice to have a writer returning to the fairy stories and making such an interesting ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79621152">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed &quot;Phoenix and Ashes&quot; so much I had to read the entire series (haven't done #1 yet).  Though they are consective in time, each stands on it's own, but were written with common characters.<br/><br/>This book is in the format of Sleeping Beauty.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Lackey's books in this world better than most of hers--they're less shallow.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of those twisted tales from the fairy tales... or to be correct, its the tale as it was probably originally told. The fairy tales were told to scare people, and this one is not a pleasant read, although it does come out right in the end.<br/><br/>The hero is cursed by her aunt, wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52025992">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy said it was the second in the series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My least favorite of this series. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't say I liked this one much. :-|]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not one of my favorites in the series ... the emphasis seemed to be on getting thru the fairy tale rather than actually developing the plot.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd actually re-read it for the third time or so and I still like it after all this time. <br/><br/>The books is part of the Elemental Mages series, where the stories are very loosely based on fairy tales. This one is based on Sleeping Beauty, except that the girl in the story isn't a princess and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/892120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love every page of this book and the series as well.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[See my review for The Fire Rose]]></body>
    
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