Blurb:
Rosamund is an Earth Master in the Schwarzwald, the ancient
Black Forest of Germany. Since the age of ten, she has lived with her teacher,
the Hunt Master and Earth Magician of the Schwarzwald Foresters, a man she
calls “Papa.” Her adoptive Papa rescued her after her original Earth Master
teacher, an old woman who lived alone in a small cottage in the forest, was
brutally murdered by werewolves. Rosa herself barely escaped, and this
terrifying incident molded the course of her future.
For like her fellow Earth Masters of the Schwarzwald Lodge, Rosa is not a healer. Instead, her talents lead her on the more violent path of protection and defense— “cleansing” the Earth and protecting its gentle fae creatures from those evil beings who seek to do them harm.
And so Rosa becomes the first woman Hunt Master and the scourge of evil creatures, with a deadly specialty in werewolves and all shapeshifters.
While visiting with a Fire Master—a friend of her mentor from the Schwarzwald Lodge— Rosa meets a pair of Elemental Magicians from Hungary who have come looking for help. They suspect that there is a dark power responsible for a string of murders happening in the remote countryside of Transylvania, but they have no proof. Rosa agrees to help them, but there is a catch: one of the two men asking for aid is a hereditary werewolf.
Rosa has been taught that there are three kinds of werewolves. There are those, like the one that had murdered her teacher, who transform themselves by use of dark magic, and also those who have been infected by the bite of these magical werewolves—these poor victims have no control over their transformative powers. Yet, there is a third kind: those who have been born with the ability to transform at will. Some insist that certain of these hereditary werewolves are benign. But Rosa has never encountered a benign werewolf!
Can she trust this Hungarian werewolf? Or is the Hunter destined to become the Hunted?
For like her fellow Earth Masters of the Schwarzwald Lodge, Rosa is not a healer. Instead, her talents lead her on the more violent path of protection and defense— “cleansing” the Earth and protecting its gentle fae creatures from those evil beings who seek to do them harm.
And so Rosa becomes the first woman Hunt Master and the scourge of evil creatures, with a deadly specialty in werewolves and all shapeshifters.
While visiting with a Fire Master—a friend of her mentor from the Schwarzwald Lodge— Rosa meets a pair of Elemental Magicians from Hungary who have come looking for help. They suspect that there is a dark power responsible for a string of murders happening in the remote countryside of Transylvania, but they have no proof. Rosa agrees to help them, but there is a catch: one of the two men asking for aid is a hereditary werewolf.
Rosa has been taught that there are three kinds of werewolves. There are those, like the one that had murdered her teacher, who transform themselves by use of dark magic, and also those who have been infected by the bite of these magical werewolves—these poor victims have no control over their transformative powers. Yet, there is a third kind: those who have been born with the ability to transform at will. Some insist that certain of these hereditary werewolves are benign. But Rosa has never encountered a benign werewolf!
Can she trust this Hungarian werewolf? Or is the Hunter destined to become the Hunted?
My review:
Mercedes Lackey is one of my all-time favorite authors. She is incredibly prolific and has a
fantastic gift for storytelling. Blood
Red is the latest in Ms. Lackey’s Elemental Masters series. These are all stand-alone books connected
only by the world they live in and rules of that world. Ms. Lackey has written her version of a fairy
tale in Firebird (Fairy Tales, #1) , The Black Swan (Fairy Tales, #2)
and her Five Hundred Kingdoms series now she writes her twist on the Little Red
Riding Hood tale and sets it in the world of her Elemental Masters. Where the earlier books in this series had a
bit of romance in them it is rather lacking in this book. There is some flirting and a hint of perhaps
a future but if you are reading this for romance. Don’t. If you are reading this for a damn good story
by all means you won’t be disappointed.
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