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Title:The Black Swan Author: Mercedes Lackey Format: Mass Market |
So, as I have said before, I like new twists on old tales. This is a new rendition of Swan Lake. Yet we are not following the princess, but the sorcerer’s daughter as she tries to find her own place within this world. She also can wield magic like her father, but he doesn’t seem happy when she follows in his footsteps. He is happy when she can use her magic for more feminine things, like cleaning the tapestry. The sorcerer changes each night into a owl and flies out to find “wicked” women. Any woman that has disobeyed her father or husband is then turned into a swan and taken back to the sorcerer’s castle. So the question is this: does the daughter continue doing what she has always done, and ignore the captives, or does she risk becoming one to save them? I have found that I do like Lackey’s stand alone novels much more then I like her series. I would suggest this title to anyone that has wandered away from Lackey in the past, or would like an intro to her works.
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