Fiction: Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey

Shallah

http://books.google.com/books?id=kVUVAQAACAAJ&dq=phoenix+and+ashes

This is a fantasy novel set in an alternate earth where magic is real and is performed by those gifted in ways based on the four elements. In this book one of the characters starts along the Fools Journey through the tarot. I hesitate to say more in case I spoil things for anyone who might wish to read this novel. I am just beginning my study of the tarot now so when I read this book the tarot bits were off putting. I kept feeling like I was missing something important because I did not have the knowledge to get it. Of course now when I am starting to learn what 'it' is the copy is out so I finally decided to order a copy instead of being frugal and borrowing it from the library when I got the urge to read it again.