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The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley: An Elemental Masters Novel

Elemental Masters, Book 16

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The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley: An Elemental Masters Novel

By: Mercedes Lackey
Narrated by: Zura Johnson
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The sixteenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series follows sharpshooter Annie Oakley as she tours Europe and discovers untapped powers.

Annie Oakley has always suspected there is something "uncanny" about herself, but has never been able to put a name to it. But when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes on tour through Germany, Bill temporarily hires a new sharpshooter to be part of his "World Wide Congress of Rough Riders": a woman named Frida, who also happens to be an Elemental Master of Air. Alongside this new performer, Annie discovers that she and her husband, Frank, are not simply master marksman, but also magicians of rare ability.

As they travel and perform, Annie must use her newfound knowledge and rare skill to combat creatures of the night scattered across the countryside, who threaten both the performers and the locals. Annie's got her gun, and it's filled with silver bullets.

©2022 Mercedes Lackey (P)2025 Tantor Media Action & Adventure Fantasy Gaslamp Historical Old West Wild West

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At first I thought we'd get more of the characters we met in Blood Red and From a High Tower... but no. All the characters are new, although we've heard of Annie Oakley and Wild Bill before and they were referenced in the previous German-based books. It was interesting having a real historical character as the mc in the story, but I had no actual knowledge of Annie Oakley other than that she was a famous sharp-shooter. I don't know how long Annie Oakley toured Europe but this story must have been a number of years later than the previous books since their was a female hunt master and no one seemed to find this noteworthy.

This story had many elements in common with From a High Tower and possibly deserved one less star for that, but I liked all the characters and enjoyed my time with the story so it gets all its stars.

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Well, greatly showing the intricacies of running a big fair from place to place, doesn’t quite live up to the other one she already did. The magical monsters are more side bit parts and we don’t get as much information on them as we did an earlier books. Somehow the entire event is somewhat lacking, even the big ending sort of fall flat.

Slightly lacking the normal quality

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I love Mercedes Lackey, but this book was very disappointing. The story moved slowly and somehow I just never got invested in it.

Disappointed- slow and undeveloped

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I love this series but this one was so hard to get through. Very little excitement. It just dragged on and on

Uneventful and downright boring!

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