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missingvolume) wrote2015-05-17 04:38 pm
missingvolume) wrote2015-05-17 04:38 pm
#44 From a High Tower by Mercedes Lackey
The latest installment in the Elemental Masters series is a loose retelling of Rapunzel. The early chapters are straight out of the traditional retellings of the story with the mother’s desire for food sends the father out to steal from a vegetable garden. After the witch in the house catches her father raiding the garden a deal is struck for the baby. After that the story then starts to veer away from the fairy tale with the exception there is a tower, fast growing hair and a mysterious man wanting in the tower.
The setting for this is in Germany so the reader doesn’t need to have read the earlier books that were set in England. I do highly recommend that you do read the forward since there is info there will help the reader understand a facet of the story that there is almost no good way to give that info to the reader without being a complete infodump. I like this series since it does take the framework of fairy tales and stretch them to fit into this large world that she has created.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
The setting for this is in Germany so the reader doesn’t need to have read the earlier books that were set in England. I do highly recommend that you do read the forward since there is info there will help the reader understand a facet of the story that there is almost no good way to give that info to the reader without being a complete infodump. I like this series since it does take the framework of fairy tales and stretch them to fit into this large world that she has created.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley