"Doucette's struggles and dreams will resonate with teenage girls who are trying to find their place in the world. Doucette can dream of being a creature of flight and magic, of wearing a swan skin. "an elaborate romantic fantasy" - Publisher's Weekly The Swan Maiden In the quiet hour before dawn, anything can happen. the atmosphere and gratifying last chapter will please fans of romance and ambience." - Kirkus Raised as a chatelaine-in-training unlike her sisters who are learning the arts of sorcery, Doucette discovers when she is sixteen years old that she too has magic in her blood, and she must brave her mother's wrath-and the loss of the man she loves-in order to follow her birthright. "Inspired by French fairy tales, Tomlinson skillfully weaves a satisfying and enchanting tale that flows quickly and immerses readers in a charming, rustic setting." - School Library Journal "Layered, elegantly written, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, The Swan Maiden soars with grace and power." - Booklist, starred review Her dream of flying is exactly that-until the day she discovers her own hidden birthright. But Doucette must run the castle household while her older sisters learn to weave spells. A third daughter can dream of being a creature of flight and magic, of wearing a swan skin like her sisters. The Swan Maiden: . Inspired by French fairy tales, Tomlinson skillfully weaves a satisfying and enchanting tale that flows. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Fans of Shannon Hale's Goose GirlĪnd Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forestįorm the likeliest audience. Buy The Swan Maiden Reprint by Tomlinson, Heather (ISBN: 9781439585764) from Amazons Book Store.
Tomlinson presents Doucette's subsequent adventures as a series of forks in the road: Stay with her mother or fly to Tante Mahalt? Marry her true love, the shepherd Jaume, or be made queen? Sacrifice her swan self, and her magic, in exchange for love? The prose rarely rises above the serviceable (“Soft as milk, as clouds, as snow, the dappled swan skin enveloped her in a luscious warmth”) rather, it's the fast-moving plot that will engage readers. Doucette, the 16-year-old daughter of a count, longs to be a swan maiden like her two older sisters, Azelais and Cecilia, who can perform sorcery, but for the past six years her parents have led her to believe that she was born without a “swan skin.” While her sisters spend each summer with Tante Mahalt perfecting their magic, Doucette undergoes year-round tutelage from their domineering mother in running a noble household-until she discovers the swan skin her mother has hidden from her since birth. Inspired by French fairy tales, Tomlinson's first novel takes the motif of the “swan maiden”- a beautiful young woman who can assume the form of a swan-and embroiders it into an elaborate romantic fantasy.
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