Daughter of the Forest
Ratings59
Average rating4.2
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Ratings59
Average rating4.2
Daughter of the Forest, the first book in Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogy. Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment. But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift--by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever. When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...
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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.
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.
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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.
