Phoenix and Ashes

Phoenix and Ashes

Infobox Book |
name = Phoenix and Ashes


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author = Mercedes Lackey
country = United States
language = English
series = Elemental Masters
genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = DAW
release_date = 2005
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 480 pp
isbn = ISBN 0756402727
preceded_by = Gates of Sleep
followed_by = The Wizard of London

"Phoenix and Ashes" (2004) is a fantasy novel written by Mercedes Lackey, a well-known fantasy author. Based on the story of Cinderella, Phoenix and Ashes is a stand alone book, though it is usually grouped with her other Elementals books.

Plot summary

Phoenix and Ashes is about a girl named Eleanor Robinson and a pilot named Reginald Fenyx. Eleanor's mother died and her father remarried a woman named Alison, who already had two daughters. When her father was killed in the Great War, Alison showed her true nature as an Elemental Master of Earth who practiced the dark blood-fueled arts. Eleanor was bound to the hearth by a fearsome ritual and people forgot all about her.

Reginald Fenyx, an aristocrat and an Elemental Master of Air, loved to fly and during the war, he became known as an air ace. However, he met another Elemental in combat and crashed; he was trapped under rubble for days while dark Earth creatures tormented him. This was particularly torturous because Air (Reginald's Element) is the opposite of Earth. When he was rescued, he was a traumatized and broken man who had abandoned magic.

The main plot of the book involves Alison's attempts to marry one of her daughters to Reginald and become nobility. Meanwhile, Eleanor's ability to use Fire magic awakens, with the tutelage of her godmother Sarah and strange beings who visit her in dreams.

Reginald appears briefly in another novel in the series, The Serpent's Shadow, which is set a few years before he becomes a pilot in World War II/The Great War. At this time he is an Oxford student and Dr. Maya Witherspoon's future fiancee, Peter Scott, remarks that while Reginald is studying to be a lawyer, the boldness of his personality marked him as a future military man instead.


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