5/27/2023 0 Comments The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey![]() ![]() Fortunately, the Fates, and a few magickal creatures, are watching out for her and she is offered a position as tutor to the children of Jason Cameron, a rail baron with a coastal estate south of San Francisco. Rose is suicidal after her father's death leaves her destitute and unable to continue her language studies at the University of Chicago. It begins with an intriguing premise, relocating the classic love story to 1905 San Francisco and the wild coast of Northern California. And so the romance in The Fire Rose is off to a promising start. In a story that teaches us to see beyond appearances, who better than a bookish woman to not judge a Beast by his exterior? Indeed, Rose comes to know her Beast through letters and conversation before ever laying eyes on him. ![]() Rosalind "Rose" Hawkins is a bookworm of the most academic sort, with a knowledge of ancient languages and a pair of corrective lenses attesting to her studiousness. And so it is in Mercedes Lackey's retelling, The Fire Rose. Disney's Belle is seduced not by the opulence of the Beast's castle or his all-singing, all-dancing dinnerware, but by his incredible library. It is the ultimate story of what Huey Lewis would call the transformational "Power of Love." And my favorite heroines are bookworms. I LOVE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: the original telling by Jeanne-Marie le Prince du Beaumont, the adaptations by the Brothers Grimm, Cupid and Psyche, Disney, even Jane Eyre. ![]()
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