Daughter of the Forest
1999 • 554 pages
Ratings46
Average rating4.2
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Ratings46
Average rating4.2
A magnificent saga set in the Celtic twilight of 10th century Ireland, when myth was law and magic was a power of nature, brilliantly brought to life: the legendary story of an evil stepmother opposed by a seventh child.
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6 primary books7 released booksSevenwaters is a 7-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Juliet Marillier.
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I heard that if I loved Wildwood Dancing (also by Marillier) I would love this one. that set some pretty unrealistic expectations. One is a YA novel and the other is adult fantasy. I didn't mind the adult topics, nor the story, but I was a little disappointed. The novel started of so slowly. It took me until I was around 100 pages in to really get into it. I just felt it dragged.
After that I couldn't put it down. I might continue with the others in the sevenwaters series, but I'm more intrigued with her newest novel.
I think I hoped for more of the other world she included in Wildwood. Really, this was a well written novel, but just didn't live up to my expectations.
An Irish fairy tale retold beautifully as historical fantasy, in eighth century Ireland and Northumbria. Sometimes disturbing but always poetically phrased, this is a coming-of-age story that kept me reading long into the night and had me thinking of its main characters long after I (forcibly) put it down. The plot is quite a bit more complex than the blurbs let on, but as a character-oriented story it is never hard to follow.
