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Firebird (Fairy Tales, Book 1)
by Mercedes Lackey

Published: 2008-01-08
Paperback : 352 pages
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����������� Ilya, son of a Russian prince, is largely ignored by his father and tormented by his larger, older brothers.� His only friends are three old people: a priest, a magician, and a woman who toils in the palace dairy.� From them Ilya learns faith, a smattering of magic, and the ...
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����������� Ilya, son of a Russian prince, is largely ignored by his father and tormented by his larger, older brothers.� His only friends are three old people: a priest, a magician, and a woman who toils in the palace dairy.� From them Ilya learns faith, a smattering of magic, and the power of love--all of which he will need desperately, for his life is about to be turned upside-down.
����������� The prince's magnificent cherry orchard is visited at midnight by the legendary Firebird, whose wings are made of flame.� Ilya's brothers? attempts capture the magical creature fail.� When Ilya tries to catch the Firebird, he sees her as a beautiful woman and earns a magical gift:� the speech of animals.�
����������� Banished, the young man journeys through a fantastical Russia full of magical mazes, enchanted creatures, and untold dangers.� As happens in the best fairy tales, Ilya falls in love with an enchanted princess, but to win her freedom will be no easy task.�


Mercedes Lackey never puts a foot wrong in this confident, funny fairy-tale adaptation. Tsar Ivan has eight sons; all are brutes like himself except for happy-go-lucky, least-favored Ilya. Cast out through the machinations of his jealous, competitive brothers, Ilya stumbles onto an enchanted castle, distressed damsels, a garden of questing princes turned to stone, and the secret of the shapeshifting woman called the Firebird. In love with a captive princess, Ilya enlists the Firebird and a charming, crafty vixen to help him battle the sorcerer. But is settling down with a princess what "happily ever after" really means?

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