Miss Amelia's List

Elemental Masters, Book 17

De: Mercedes Lackey

Narrado por: Zura Johnson

The seventeenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series follows Amelia Stonehold and Serena Meleva as they navigate property acquisition, marriage proposals, and other ancient horrors in Regency England, but with the help of elemental magic

The year is 1815, and an American, Miss Amelia Stonehold, has arrived in the Devon town of Axminster, accompanied by her "cousin" Serena Meleva. She's brought with her a list to tick off: find a property, investigate the neighbors, bargain for and purchase the property, staff the property and . . . possibly . . . find a husband. But Amelia soon finds herself contending with some decidedly off-list trouble, including the Honorable Captain Harold Roughtower, whose eyes are fixed on her fortune. Little does Amelia know that his plans for her wealth extend far beyond refurbishing his own crumbing estate—they include the hidden Roman temple of Glykon, where something very old, very angry, and very dangerous still lurks.

But Roughtower isn't prepared to reckon with the fact that neither Amelia nor Serena are pushovers. And he certainly isn't ready for the revelation that he has an Earth Master and a Fire Mage on his hands—or that one of them is a shapeshifter.

©2024 Mercedes Lackey (P)2025 Tantor Media

Boring Juvenile Fiction

Huge Mercedes Lackey fan, but this one just didn’t make it. It reads like a sketch or a first draft. Lots of detail about clothes and the society but written at a 6th grade level. Almost like explaining this society to Middle Schoolers. And can’t say the narrator particularly helped.

And there were lots of opportunity to have interaction with the main characters and to build up to the action at the end of the book, but that didn’t happen. And then suddenly at the end there is the sudden action sequence and the solution all in a few pages. And it was telegraphed in. Like one of those horror movies where you are yelling at the stupid teenagers who get out of the car or hide in the basement. Where was the editor on this one?

Think about the title, Miss Amelia’s List. That’s what it is about, this list, but it’s barely mentioned until this scene at the end. But there are these hints that we are actually reading Pride and Prejudice.

Really, really disappointing. Really.

Wonderful Historically Based Elemental Mage Story

I enjoyed the story, even though it was very focused in the beginning on clothing. It was a good distraction from what is happening these days and the part of the story that happens when Ms Lackey writes a story about elemental mages that concerns their being in danger has unusual timing in this particular story. What I did not like was that she decided that a leopard could purr and stubbornly stayed with this in the story. There are easy ways to have explained it and she chose not to.

lovely cozy fantasy with a little adventure

Another great addition to the elemental mage series. Lush descriptions and an interesting time period, you don't see year of no summer mentioned often. I love the characters, lots of strong female characters. It is more slice of life in a historical setting with magic added. Lots of fun to read and more cozy then adventure, which I was in the perfect mood for.

It’s just Pride and Predjudice

You know how Jane Austen tends to drone on for ages about gowns and ladies conversations? This does too. And the plot is the same- I LOVE Lackey and Austen but this is a boring version of Pride and Prejudice which does neither of them justice.

Disappointed

I love this series and was so excited to see a new one. There were many things I really loved about this book and especially the main character Amelia. However the ending totally ruined it for me. Trying not to spoiler alert but I didn’t want a pride and prejudice remake ending so was glad we didn’t get that but the end was abrupt completely at odds with the story line I felt like some was trying to make a deadline at the end not wrap an otherwise enjoyable story