Book One of the Elemental Masters Series
Maya Witherspoon has lived for most of her life in India where she was born, until the deaths of her parents. Before her death, Maya's mother warned her to beware "the serpent's shadow". Now, to avoid her parent's fate, Maya has traveled to England and become a doctor. She lives with a family of Indian servants who used to take care of her mother, and a menagerie of preternaturally intelligent pets she also inherited from her mother. Maya has powerful magic, but so does what she's hiding from, and she has never been trained. She has Western elemental magic, unlike that of her mother's people, and her father didn't believe in magic! Peter Scott, an Elemental Master, has offered to teach her, but will it be too late? The owner of the hospital is the uncle of an idiot, vindictive man who hates her for being smarter than him, many male doctors hate her fro being female and a better doctor then them, and Shivasani (the serpents shadows mistress, an Indian priestess, Maya's aunt, insane and evil) is searching for Maya and coming ever closer. With enemies closing in, magical and non-magical, Maya's time is running out. Will the help of her friends, her magic, and her pets(really, they belong in both of the other categories, but hey) be enough?
OK, I am like totally in love with Mercedes Lackey! She is one of my favorite authors now, or at least what I've read of her. This book is no exception, with humor, suspense, and action in just the right places. A beautifully detailed fantasy world just a couple of universes over from ours, with what is probably historically accurate details, mixed with brilliantly original magics and writing. Not an action novel, or humor, but an awesome fantasy novel, the first in a series that I am dying to finish. Absolutely fantastic. I know i say that about every book on here, but i put them on because o loved them, so that is to be expected.
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