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Original Title:	The Black Swan
ISBN:	0886778905 (ISBN13: 9780886778903)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Fairy Tales #2

The Black Swan (Fairy Tales #2) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

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Title	:	The Black Swan (Fairy Tales #2)
Author	:	Mercedes Lackey
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2000 by DAW (first published May 1st 1999)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Fiction. Romance

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As the only child of a powerful sorcerer, Odile Von Rothbart has studied the magical arts under her father’s stern tutelage all her life. Yet she feels only fear toward him. For considering his wife’s untimely death the ultimate betrayal, Baron Von Rothbart scours the land in the shape of a great bird of prey. His personal mission is to capture woman who arouse his wrath and inspire his rage for vengeance against all womankind. These poor souls he turns into swans—forcing them to spend their lives as beautiful but powerless animals who only regain their human forms briefly each night by the transitory light of the moon. Yet though Odile is terrified of him, she has learned far more than her father, the baron, intended to teach her—both of the magical arts and of Von Rothbart’s idiosyncratic nature. And both as a woman and the guardian of his swan flock, her heart goes out to each and every young maiden ensorcelled by her vindictive father. And then the noblest of Von Rothbart’s enchanted flock, the Princess Odette, finds the courage to confront her captor, wresting from him a pact which could lead to freedom for herself and all the swan-maidens. Knowing Von Rothbart will use all of his magical cunning to avoid honoring this pact, will Odile have the strength to face him in a final magical confrontation which, if she fails, will lead to her death and the murder of all in her flock?

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Excellent retelling of a fairy tale. Highly recommended.

I really enjoyed this version of Swan Lake. Odile is one of my favorite characters and Odette and her relationship with Prince Siegfried was interesting rather than cliche and annoying. Baron Eric von Rothbart was a great villain with the most character I have seen from him in other versions. There was a more adult scene with the Prince, but I believe this actually furthers his character in a monumental way. I loved the character development in this book.

The usual Lackey fluff, but somehow less energetic than most of her efforts. Like the books from the Elemental Masters series, it's a fairytale (or fairytale-like story) retelling, but the magical system is extremely flat and never really explored much. The characters, while still tending towards melodrama in the usual Lackey style, are similarly underdeveloped, and it's hard to care too much about them. Frankly, the part of the book I enjoyed most was the loving description of the protagonist's

When your "hero" is a rapist who never really repents for his bad action, how is it possible to give a flying swan feather?Watch the ballet. Listen to the music. Skip this.

I have seen several retellings of Swan Lake, from a play to a old anime to the cartoon movie made in the last decade. And out of all the versions of Swan Lake, I like this book best.My only beef is that the wife's death caused the Baron to hate all women - that isn't really explained in depth. How did his wife's death make him so bitter? Why did he see it as a betrayal? That question nagged at me throughout the book.Other than that, this book was awesome. Odile is a strong but sympathetic

Cw rape and racism.I'm going to keep this short and simple. In the forth chapter, the disgusting chauvinist pig of a prince, who is supposed to be the HERO here, rapes a defenseless Romani girl and then complains because she doesn't live up to the racist stereotypes of Romani women.If you still want to read it, knowing that, wtf is wrong with you?

A retelling of the Swan Lake legend. Gorgeous imagery.