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Mari Prothero turns sixteen, and learns the family fishing luck depends on each generation marrying a sea dweller, but she demands her choice of suitors and a teacher from the sea ruler In London, the stuffy official magicians send a pair of friends to seek the new water mage, little knowing the three girls would become best friends. Read Home from the Sea by Mercedes Lackey – kino-fada.fr This review also appears on my blog.2.5 starsIn the newest Elemental Masters novel, Mari Prothero learns that her father s preternatural fishing and sailing abilities aren t just skill long ago her family made a pact with the Selchs, a type of Selkie, and in order to keep the pact, Mari must marry a Selch, have children, and give her husband and one child back to the sea But what nobody counted on was Mari s abilities as a Water master and her genuine affection for the man she marries.Anyone This review also appears on my blog.2.5 starsIn the newest Elemental Masters novel, Mari Prothero learns that her father s preternatural fishing and sailing abilities aren t just skill long ago her family made a pact with the Selchs, a type of Selkie, and in order to keep the pact, Mari must marry a Selch, have children, and give her husband and one child back to the sea But what nobody counted on was Mari s abilities as a Water master and her genuine affection for the man she marries.Anyone who reads my reviews knows I m a Mercedes Lackey freak Her books helped get me through adolescence and they re still comfort reads now I love almost everything she s written, and will defend her themes and characters to the death.I didn t love this.Home from the Sea may be the weakest Lackey only not counting co written books work I ve read to date, and that s including t...Lackey s gotten fairly formulaic at this point, especially with her retellings of fairy tales in Victorian settings But that s not necessarily a terrible thing While there s nothing here that will surprise you, for those who like her warm, slightly angsty characters and well earned happily ever afters, this is as familiar and comforting as a cup of cocoa.Mari is pleasant enough, and has enough backbone to get a few good jabs in Meanwhile, it s nice to see Sarah and Nan grown up and on their Lackey s gotten fairly formulaic at this point, especially with her retellings of fairy tales in Victorian settings But that s not necessarily a terrible thing While there s nothing here that will surprise you, for those who like her warm, slightly angsty characters and well earned happily ever afters, this is as familiar and comforting as a cup of cocoa.Mari is pleasant enough, and has enough backbone to get a few good jabs in Meanwhile, it s nice to see Sarah and ...Not one of her best I usually really like this series, but the dramatic tension wasn t there this time The two villans come across as petulant little boys They can cause a great deal of trouble, but they hardly seem to know why they re doing it The first 75% of the book is full of daily life Another reviewer her compared it to Little Women, which I thin...Contains mild spoilers Cross posted toMari is a Welsh fisherman s daughter who discovers on her 18th birthday that she is obligated to marry a Selch selkie as part of a generations long bargain between her family and the seal clan At the same time, she learns that the fantastic sprites she s been seeing her whole life are actually indicative of her growing potential as a Water Master Nan and Sarah repeat characters who debuted in The Wizard of London are sent by Lord Alderscroft Contains mild spoilers Cross posted toMari is a Welsh fisherman s...I think this may well become my favourite of the Elemental Masters series.Unlike most of the other books in the series, in this the conflicts are relatively small, domestic affairs The bad guys have mildly sensible reasons for their behaviour, and are not yethurt people for power types, which is a great relief.It s also something of a sequel to The Wizard of London , and it s nice to meet the grown up Sarah and Nan.Then there s the domestic minutiae that the author does so well, and I think this may well become my favourite of the Elemental Masters series.Unlike most of the other books in the series, in this the conflicts are relatively small, domestic affairs The bad guys have mildly sensible reasons for their behaviour, and are not yethurt people for power types, which is a great relief.It s also somet...Of course I read this without knowing it was part of a series, and not the first part, and of course I haven t read the others Nonetheless, it was a quaint study of characters, which shows that Lackey can write traditional courting tales, and put twists on fae myths and delicate forms of fantasy It was not an action packed story, but it didn t need to be Curiously, this is the second Lackey audiobook I ve listened to, and the second in which there is a production of Midsummer Night s Dream Of course I read this without knowing it was part of a series, and not the first part, and of course I haven t read the others Nonetheless, it was a quaint study of characters, which shows that Lackey can write traditional courting tales, and put twists on fae myths and delicate forms of fantasy It was not an action packed story, but it didn t need to be Curiously, this is the second Lackey audiobook I ve listened to, and the second in which there is a production of Midsummer Night s Dream Perhaps it will become a motif throughout her immense body of work, or perhaps it was a coincidence I know with time and considering the large number of her audiobooks available at my library, I ll...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I am so disappointed.The story of Mari, destined to be wife to a selch and a water master in her own right, had potential And honestly, I have loved the Elemental Masters series, especially since I find that they re based on faerie tales u...Three stars because I enjoyed it, if I was doing a literary critique it would have got two.I liked the main character Mari and her father, I liked the fact it was set in Wales I suspect that a lot of research went into this book and I think a fair bit of the detail of the life of a fisherman in a small Welsh Fishing town was true it was certainly very interesting as were the train trips around Britain.I am fond of the elemental series, I think I have read them all so far but in this book Three stars because I enjoyed it, if I was doing a literary critique it would have got two.I liked the main character Mari and her father, I liked the fact it was set in Wales I suspect that a lot of research went into this book and I think a fair bit of the detail of the life of a fisherman in a small Welsh Fishing town was true it was certainly very interesting as were the train trips around Britain.I am fond of the elemental series, I think I have read them all so far but in this book there was a clear ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here It takes a little while to get the ball rolling on this 8th Elemental Masters book we jump from one set of characters to a second set, back and forth, until something happens that gives cause to unite the two to a common purpose Sometimes I find myself wishing that Lackey would save the happily ever after stories for her other series the Five Hundred Kingdoms in lieu of scrounging up some of the danger and the NEED in these Elemental Masters books What I didn t get from Home From the...This book could have greatly benefited from an editor, and I m surprised to find myself saying that given how long Mercedes Lackey has been a big name in the fantasy genre At some points she had characters discussing knowledge that they couldn t possibly know, and she also gave the same information to the reader several times as though she had forgotten what she had written a few chapters ago I generally don t make a big point of noticing or commenting on the crafting of a story, but in this This book could have greatly benefited from an editor, and I m surprised to find myself saying that given how long Mercedes Lackey has been a big name in the fantasy genre At some point...

Home from the Sea
  • English
  • 20 March 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 311 pages
  • 0756407273
  • Mercedes Lackey
  • Home from the Sea