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chestnut_pod 's review for:
A Treachery of Swans
by A.B. Poranek
fast-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Overwrought, underwritten, melodramatic. Why bother using a wonderful folktale if you’re hardly going to use it? Why bother with swan maidens if you’re not going to have swan maidens? Why bother at all, frankly, if you don’t manage to produce a Swan Lake book better than Mercedes Lackey’s — you know, the one with rapist Siegfried? At least that one has some semblance of material grounding and respect for the source material, not to mention prose which at least hasn’t been fed through the YA funhouse typewriter a thousand times.