#76 The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley by Mercedes Lackey

The latest in the Elemental Masters series has its focus on Annie Oakley when the show was in Germany.  Annie and her husband at the beginning of the book find out they have magic when a new act is brought in and Wild Bill wants them to meet the couple behind the act and approve of them joining since they are also trick shooters.  There is Annie’s poor upbringing brought up by way of discussions of her nightmares and her binding of her fertility by a werewolf when she was a child sent to a workhouse.  All of this comes to matter to the story as it Annie works with Frieda to learn magic. Frieda works with Air magic for her trick shots and also uses her magic to hunt evil creatures in Germany’s lands with other magicians.  Annie and her husband join them on other hunts during the cold winter months when the show is closed down.  When it does warm up there is a rush to get them tested for their mastery and safely back to America as Annie can feel something out there coming for her.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss