The Black Swan (Paperback)

from puckrobin

Long before she began the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms for Harlequin's Luna label, Lackey had begun to explore the fun to be had in retelling some of the world's classic fairy tales - in many ways, the world's original expressions of Sci Fi and Fantasy - from a more modern point of view. Al...

from nieva21

I really liked how the ending wasn't predictable; meaning that, Lackey though she did carbon write this tale from the original ballet, constructed her own unique ending. I liked her ending better, because Odile doesn't die and is made a Countess. Some adaptations lose the true message of the clas...

from angeltyuan

I really enjoyed this retelling of the swan lake fairy tale from the perspective of an original character. It is a slightly darker look at the reasons and workings of the curse on the swan princesses, and the main character is refreshing in her role as a sympathetic captor. Odette's struggle betw...

from angeltyuan

I really enjoyed this retelling of the swan lake fairy tale from the perspective of an original character. It is a slightly darker look at the reasons and workings of the curse on the swan princesses, and the main character is refreshing in her role as a sympathetic captor. Odette's struggle betw...

from kaionvin

My first Mercedes Lackey novel, and I can't say I'm impressed. I'm only cursorily familiar with the story of Swan Lake, but this version didn't seem to add much of anything to the base fairy-tale-ish structure. At the beginning, the author appears to be trying to explore the power gap between the...