(this is a rant/presentation of one of my favorite authors and her first book
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I just wondered whether anyone's here read Juliet Marilliers Sevenwater trilogy?
If not, I recommend it strongly. If you love a story undying love/forbidden romance/heart-shredding sorrow/brilliant fantasy/fairy tale that does NOT involve clichées and that does NOT have a plot that’s copied over and over, those books are perfect. They are set in old Norse and Celtic environment.
I’m amazed that so few has heard of her in my school and I sincerely hope that is not the case everywhere else. There are a few authors I like better than her, but they are better known.
The first book in the trilogy The Daughter of the Forest.
Have you ever read the story about the girl whose twelve brothers were turned into swans? It’s based on that fairy tale, but it’s been done so beautifully that you hardly notice; you just get absorbed in the story.
Here are some extracts from the trilogy (had to write them down on the library, so I just took some at random):
“You have a low opinion of women, and nothing but despise for my family,” I replied with tears in my eyes, for his touch set off an aching deep within me that was joy and pain rolled in one. “And yet you risk your life to come here just so you can tell me to go home. You can hardly call that consistent.”
We looked at eachother and, despite myself, I felt a tear roll down my cheek.
“Don’t. Don’t.” Bran said fiercely, and his thumb moved against my skin as if to stem the flow.
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Her hair is like sunshine, her eyes full of brightness. Good, Johnny, good. What a clever boy! Shall we do it again? Let’s put our little pigs in two rows; that’s right. Now the farmer’s going to count them – half to go to marked, half to fatten up for the winter. How many in this row... one, two, three... but she went away.. she let me go...
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“Curly?” he said it carefully, as if he had just seen something he could not quite believe.
Touch me again, something inside me said, despite all my efforts of control. Put your arms around me, hold me close. Just once. Just this once.
But Darragh turned his back, and shoved his hands under his arms, and when he spoke his voice shook with some sort of feeling I could not hope to understand.
“You’d best go.” he said.
The Sevenwaters triology contains Daughter of the Forest, Son of the Shadows and Child of Prophecy. I'm not as fond of her "Norse books", Wolfskin and Foxmask as much, but that is because I’ve been spoiled by the others, which were gorgous.
If it had been possible, I’d have sent you my copies of the books just to make sure you read them. But if you do read them anyway, and think I have a good taste in books, feel free to ask me for more recommendations. There are too many authors out there who never gets read by those who’d love them.
And if you got a book I MUST read, then by all means give me the title and I’ll see if I can find it on my next trip to the library.
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