The Gates of Sleep, part of Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series, is a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale set in the Edwardian era. The story follows Marina Roeswood, who was cursed at birth by her aunt Arachne and raised in secret by her godparents in Cornwall. As Marina approaches her eighteenth birthday, her aunt returns to claim her and reinstate the curse, leading to a battle between good and evil, magic and sorcery. The book explores themes of family, identity, and the clash between the Romanticism movement and the Industrial world, all woven into an imaginative magical world with well-developed characters.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
Content warnings include themes of mental health struggles, potential lead poisoning, and child endangerment.
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Growing up in the backwoods of Cornwall with foster parents, practitioners of Elemental Magic, Marina Roeswood is sent to live with her aunt after the deaths of her birth parents and finds herself the target of an evil that has been stalking her for her entire life.
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