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alobearRealised I missed a Mercedes Lackey audiobook review somewhere along the way.
I really enjoyed the first half of Steadfast, the next in the Elemental Masters series. It was a gentle but entertaining tale of music hall actors bonding and developing interesting acts using elemental creatures to help them. There was some minor peril (as they say on movie warnings these days), some light romance, and lots of fun characters.
Then the bad guy turned up and suddenly it was all rape and abuse (which the other characters couldn't do anything about because the perpetrator was the victim's husband and it was turn of the 20th century) - so that was all a bit unpleasant. It then all got wrapped up remarkably quickly with a major deus ex machina, which was rather disappointing, since it meant none of the characters really did anything themselves to rectify the situation.
So, certainly not my favourite in the series, by a long shot.
I really enjoyed the first half of Steadfast, the next in the Elemental Masters series. It was a gentle but entertaining tale of music hall actors bonding and developing interesting acts using elemental creatures to help them. There was some minor peril (as they say on movie warnings these days), some light romance, and lots of fun characters.
Then the bad guy turned up and suddenly it was all rape and abuse (which the other characters couldn't do anything about because the perpetrator was the victim's husband and it was turn of the 20th century) - so that was all a bit unpleasant. It then all got wrapped up remarkably quickly with a major deus ex machina, which was rather disappointing, since it meant none of the characters really did anything themselves to rectify the situation.
So, certainly not my favourite in the series, by a long shot.
