About this title: Baron Eric von Rothbert is a powerful sorcerer who devotes his life to capturing women who inspire his wrath and transforming them into swans. Over the flock he sets his daughter Odile, gifted in magic, but still spurned by her father. Odette, noblest of the Baron's enchanted flock, wrests from their captor a promise which could lead to fredom for all the swan-maidens, but the Baron is determined to use all his magical cunning to avoid honouring that promise. Prince Siegfried comes upon the swan-maidens as day dissolves into dusk -- and the game takes on a new twist, for Siegfried is a ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Daw Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780886778903ISBN:0886778905
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Looks unread. No spine creases, stamps, writing or remainder marks. No creases on the covers. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 402 p. Daw Book Collectors, 1120. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Daw Books, New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780886778903ISBN:0886778905
Description: Good. Fantasy. Book is clean, tight and bright except for a line on the bottom, outside edge of pages. Spine creasing and light edgewear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780886778330ISBN:0886778336
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780886778330ISBN:0886778336
Description: Good. Ex-library. 89-Z. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DAW
Date Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN-13:9780886778903ISBN:0886778905
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DAW
Date Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN-13:9780886778903ISBN:0886778905
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Good. 0886778905 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Very Good. 0886778336 Copy has been read but remains in nice & clean condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or high-lighting. Spine is tight; a clean read. Has some wear and a medium sized tear on the front dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Daw Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780886778330ISBN:0886778336
Description: HardCover! First Edition: First Printing: 8vo., 376 pages. This book is unmarked and very good in a very good unmarked dust jacket. Now in a clear dust jacket protector, this is a very attractive copy of this title! ISBN: 0886778336. read more
Description: Very Good. 0886778905 Very good condition, minor wear. Minor shelf wear on edges and corners. Some scuffing. No other major marks or damage. Paperback, 416 pages, DAW (May 1, 2000). In this novelization of the ballet "Swan Lake, " Odile von Rothbart, daughter of a vengeful sorcerer, lives on an isolated medieval estate with her father's prisoners, unfaithful young women who are swans by day and human while the moon shines. Unexpectedly, after years of living without hope, the swan maidens are ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : D A W Books, Incorporated, 2000
Description: ISBN: 0886778905, Mass Market Paperback, 1st paperback printing, Very Good/pictorial wraps; light spine reading creases, small creases to back corner tips, light wear and creasing to covers and cover edges, 16mo., 402 pages., read more
"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 between helping her friends and honoring her father's tyrant wishes was very well played out. She is very self-sufficient, surviving with her flock in the forests by relying on her own magic. The prince was a playboy prat until something goes wrong, and he does redeem himself by expressing true guilt over the incident. Love at first sight still kind of bothers me, but it wasn't fall in love = sex, and Odette's suitor is kinda adorable, so I'll let it go."
"As is usual with Mercedes Lackey, I found that the beginning dragged. Most of the excitement is in the last third of the book, which I could not stop reading. Lackey is often melodramatic and overly descriptive, which does not bother me much but has the potential to annoy those who are more particular.
I love the story of Swan Lake, and as I am generally very lenient with re-tellings of anything, I really enjoyed this story. A thoroughly enjoyable plot with good character development. My favourites were Odile and Benno. I also enjoyed the ending. Everyone got what they deserved and it was just the way I would have done it."
"I love books that are classic stories told from the POV of a secondary or even tertiary character. In this case, the tale of Swan Lake is told as seen by the villain's daughter, Odile. Though in the original folk tale, she is only seen during the climactic ball (when her father uses her to make the hero betray the heroine), in Black Swan we learn all about Odile and her relationships with her sorcerer father and his swan/maiden captives. And if Lackey changes the ending of the story a little, I'm certainly not complaining. I like happy endings."
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