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smokedshelves 's review for:
A Treachery of Swans
by A.B. Poranek
thank you to margaret k mcelderry books and simonteen for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
um, this was fine. maybe i’m learning i’m not a swan lake fan or maybe this was a one off for this specific retelling. i don’t know. i just do know that odile and marie pissed me off more than was probably intended. mostly odile. while i did find the concept intriguing of having the swan curse and mixing it with almost an aurthurian retelling (via morgana), i just could not get past odile as a narrator. i recognize that she is young but she would continue to make the same mistakes over and over and it essentially took marie snapping her out of her old mindset for her to actually change her actions.
to me, it almost felt like odile did not truly have any power in her own story, even at the end. and so that caused me to feel so bogged down as we went through these cycles of her hurting the ones she supposedly loved. i really could not pinpoint one exact moment that would have been a favorite or a least favorite. i just know i struggled to pick it back up when i’d break and to me those are my least favorite types of stories. i truly wish i loved it like i’m seeing so many others rave about this one!
um, this was fine. maybe i’m learning i’m not a swan lake fan or maybe this was a one off for this specific retelling. i don’t know. i just do know that odile and marie pissed me off more than was probably intended. mostly odile. while i did find the concept intriguing of having the swan curse and mixing it with almost an aurthurian retelling (via morgana), i just could not get past odile as a narrator. i recognize that she is young but she would continue to make the same mistakes over and over and it essentially took marie snapping her out of her old mindset for her to actually change her actions.
to me, it almost felt like odile did not truly have any power in her own story, even at the end. and so that caused me to feel so bogged down as we went through these cycles of her hurting the ones she supposedly loved. i really could not pinpoint one exact moment that would have been a favorite or a least favorite. i just know i struggled to pick it back up when i’d break and to me those are my least favorite types of stories. i truly wish i loved it like i’m seeing so many others rave about this one!