• Recurve

  • The Elemental Series, Book 1
  • By: Shannon Mayer
  • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
  • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (984 ratings)

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Recurve

By: Shannon Mayer
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
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"My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental."

My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen.

I've been accused of attacking the queen, my wicked stepmother, and my life is suddenly on the line. I have only two options left to me: banishment, or training to become one of the King's Elite Guards, an Ender.

Option one will kill me.

Option two is meant to break me, but is the only way to survive.

Did I mention I have no power like the rest of the elementals, and my connection to the earth is worth next to nothing?

Could things get any worse? Of course they can. Welcome to being an Elemental.

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Avatar on Steroids

This was a great listen with different twist and turns. Its like a spinoff of Avatar on Steroids, but for Adults. It could use some more details on the sexy "times". It has an evil stepmother and a choosen child. Well worth the credit, ready for the next book!

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Pretty good story here!

I was given this story for an honest review. Also, I listened to the audiobook version of this story. Needless to say, this was a good listen. It was unique and left me wondering what was going to happen next.

The story kept me entertained and the narrator did a great job narrating.

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The Queen made Lark forget everything, yet, weren’t there people she lived near that knew her and her family? Knew that there was no disease (forgot what it’s called with the borrowers) going around? Wondered what happened to her and her family? I wonder about Cactus as well. Did he have no other friends besides Lark, parents, or other family members? And why was it that they remembered who each other were when they met later on in the story?

One thing I can't stand? Those that do anything and everything to get a parents approval. In this case, Lark and wanting her father to love her. Once I got to the end, it's mentioned her father was so distance and cruel to her because he didn't want the queen messing with her. Yet, he continued this behavior even after the queen left. And if he was so worried about the queen doing something, why in the world did he stay married to her? Additionally, her father ends up telling her near the end that he did trust her? Huh? He trusted her, yet still believed she had no powers and was under the queen's control? Yup, that sounds like trust to me.

Speaking of powers...Why couldn't/didn't she show her powers to her father? That part made no sense to me.

Either way, this was a really interesting story. I've love to read book 2 and would recommend this one to others.

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A great first book in amazing series

Wonderful narration and a captivating and engrossing story. you will become invested fast. Emotional and engaging.

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Wonderful!

Fantastic story & Lauren is amazing! this is a strong start to this series, and I will definitely be reading more from this author, and I have already picked out more performances by Lauren :-)

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powerful

liked this book a lot. great characters. love books with lots of special powers and mystic people. can't wait to read next one.

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Legacy

Good first story start. Nice to read about Larkspur's beginning, a character introduced in the Rylee Adamson stories. Death, destruction, battle, lies, treachory, and a beginning abound in this story. I'm looking forward to book 2.

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Good story, terrible writing

Overall, the story is interesting, but it is overshadowed by bad and lazy writing. the overuse of simile and tell rather than show marks this as a book and series that needed a good editor's pen.

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loved it

Rather interesting world of elementals living in the red wood forest and surrounding area. i recommend it.

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Good versus evil: Mayer Style

While this book is the same world as Rylee Adamson’s, it’s set years before Rylee and therefore not a continuous storyline.
This book is also not like Rylee in that with Larkspur we get to watch her grow from a seeder (low on the list of powers, and lower on the amount of power she has as a seeder) to a princess, albeit a halfbreed and shunned.
The plot follows Lark as she follows her disjointed memories and learns to break through her magical barrier. She works basically as secret service for the same royals who show her no love and are looking to finish her. The flashbacks provide much needed insight to Lark’s past and help the reader understand that because she doesn’t have one of the four typical elemental powers but a fifth much rarer type of power she’s either sought after to control or to kill.
As is typical with Mayer many of the relationships we watch build in this book turn us on our backsides, you never know who to trust or who will turn on Lark which keeps you pining for more. Despite all of this Lark pushes on, stays true to herself and to her family, even when they don’t stay true to her. She’s a powerful force that will not be oppressed

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After the series is finished..... Leave so much...

I waited to finish the series to write a review. If you don't mind inconsistencies from one book to the next, if you don't mind the writer completely changing the personality of a character because she didn't plan ahead... and needs a plot twist.. this may be the series for you. This books series wants to pretend that all the bad characters were actually good characters.... and the reader is just stupid. Turns out the books sold better than expected and you need to forget the first few books because we need to write a few more and it can't be done within the story line explained so tar... Nonsense... Ms Writer changes ALL the characters so that she can continue this series....The core points of this series are nothing because Ms Writer needs more money from this book series... and I was stupid enough to provide her with that.... If you have money to waste... this is the series for you...

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