Laura E. Weymouth

This was a good story, a retelling of the story of the girl whose brothers are turned into swans and she has to make them shirts from nettles. This has a few twists that refresh it and made it really stand out to me.
Rowenna Winthrop has always known that she has magic and wants her mother to teach her but her mother thinks that she needs some maturity first, until her mother dies. Then her mother comes back but wrong and mutes her, changes her brothers and a boy who came to her for help into swans and runs her away from her village. She has to find a way to break the curses and to survive and the price is high.
There are some moments when things are messy in this story and she often has to make hard choices but it was a really great read.… (meer)

* I got this book for review*

I really enjoyed this read. It was so eerie and creepy and such a engaging read. I normally never read standalone reads. This one captured me from page one. I also really liked the friendship the developed with Wyn throughout the read, I also really liked how the magic system developed. I also really liked how found family was the heart of this read. I really would rec this read for the halloween season!! I really did grow to love the main character in the read!!… (meer)

*I got this book for review for my honest thoughts*

I was impressed by this novel. I went into this book curious by the topic but overall this book was such a fast pace/engaging read. I really loved how this book was structured both with the duel characters and the duel timelines. I really found the "fantasy" world to be a world that even I wanted to attend and really liked the the POV of both girls. I was a bit more invested in Phillipa storyline. I really also enjoyed the elements of poetry and how that was structured in to the novel. I also liked the historical fiction novel and how relastic these characters storylines was. I also like both girls love intreats and really enjoyed this read. I thought it was sold standalone as well and hope to read more book by this author in the future.… (meer)