Mercedes Lackey
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.86 | 8230 Users | 248 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Black Swan (Fairy Tales #2) |
| Author | : | Mercedes Lackey |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2000 by DAW (first published May 1st 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Fiction. Romance |
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As the only child of a powerful sorcerer, Odile Von Rothbart has studied the magical arts under her father’s stern tutelage all her life. Yet she feels only fear toward him. For considering his wife’s untimely death the ultimate betrayal, Baron Von Rothbart scours the land in the shape of a great bird of prey. His personal mission is to capture woman who arouse his wrath and inspire his rage for vengeance against all womankind. These poor souls he turns into swans—forcing them to spend their lives as beautiful but powerless animals who only regain their human forms briefly each night by the transitory light of the moon.Yet though Odile is terrified of him, she has learned far more than her father, the baron, intended to teach her—both of the magical arts and of Von Rothbart’s idiosyncratic nature. And both as a woman and the guardian of his swan flock, her heart goes out to each and every young maiden ensorcelled by her vindictive father.
And then the noblest of Von Rothbart’s enchanted flock, the Princess Odette, finds the courage to confront her captor, wresting from him a pact which could lead to freedom for herself and all the swan-maidens. Knowing Von Rothbart will use all of his magical cunning to avoid honoring this pact, will Odile have the strength to face him in a final magical confrontation which, if she fails, will lead to her death and the murder of all in her flock?
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| Original Title: | The Black Swan |
| ISBN: | 0886778905 (ISBN13: 9780886778903) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Fairy Tales #2 |
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3 1/3. It wasn't bad per se, maybe just a little wordy. Could have used editing, as her (the main female protagonist's) thoughts took up a lot of the book that wasn't necessarily pertinent to the story.A retelling of the Swan Lake legend. Gorgeous imagery.
This was obviously written before the Darren Aronofsky film of 2010. A lot of people will (unsurprisingly) mistake this for the story about the ballet soloist that lost her mind. This is a fairy tale, but a very dark one. This story is told from the PoV of Lady Odile von Rothbart, though it tends to go from Odile to Prince Siegfried. While the ballet is not to be confused as being bright and happy (there is nothing bright and happy about it) the events in the book are an example of 'It Got
"Swan Lake" is my favourite ballet and I'm always pleased to watch new adaptations of it. What I found most surprising in Mercedes Lackey's version, though, was that not even for a second did I think this was an adaptation. Obviously, it follows the "Swan Lake" story very closely, but it is so beautifully written, with such convincing, wonderfully crafted characters, that it felt to me as if this was the original story and the ballet the adaptation. I loved Odile from the beginning and, even if
Cw rape and racism.I'm going to keep this short and simple. In the forth chapter, the disgusting chauvinist pig of a prince, who is supposed to be the HERO here, rapes a defenseless Romani girl and then complains because she doesn't live up to the racist stereotypes of Romani women.If you still want to read it, knowing that, wtf is wrong with you?
Possibly the best thing about this book, which tells a lovely tale, is the gorgeous cover art by Jody A Lee.In the UK Jon Sullivan did an equally lovely cover, so ...
I have seen several retellings of Swan Lake, from a play to a old anime to the cartoon movie made in the last decade. And out of all the versions of Swan Lake, I like this book best.My only beef is that the wife's death caused the Baron to hate all women - that isn't really explained in depth. How did his wife's death make him so bitter? Why did he see it as a betrayal? That question nagged at me throughout the book.Other than that, this book was awesome. Odile is a strong but sympathetic
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