All the technical and scientific terms went a bit over my head… I tried paying close attention but there were so many terms that I gave up.They were all nice and stuff, but I really couldn’t tell you all their names or characteristics except for Emil and Fabin.

The Wild Swans has 11 brothers, but this book cut that down to 8.

But I really liked the romance, which wasn’t the book’s focus at all. It was definitely difficult for them at times, especially for Tiav, because relationships are built on trust, and Liddi couldn’t tell him everything she wanted to or what he wanted to know. Tiav was an absolute sweetheart and I thought he and Liddi had great chemistry and worked well together.

The romance was really cute! It progressed at a nice pace and evolved from a nice friendship.

I admired her determination and really appreciated her unwavering love for her brothers. And her narrative (“inner monologue” you could call it?) was a very strong voice. I really felt her frustration, fear, and anger. Because she can’t speak aloud or else her brothers will die, it was fascinating seeing how she managed to communicate with others. Lewis did a great job retelling the fairy tale, and the parallels to the original story are very nice and creative, I must say. Spinning Starlight is a retelling of the Hans Christian Anderson tale The Wild Swans.

I really like sci-fi fairy tale retellings, I’ve found (as well as those dark and grand high fantasy retellings).

Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans strings the heart of the classic with a stunning, imaginative world as a star-crossed family fights for survival in this companion to Stitching Snow. With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers’ survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back? But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true.

And when their captor implants a device in Liddi’s vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.ĭesperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home-a handsome dignitary named Tiav. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. So when a group of men show up at her house uninvited, she assumes it’s just the usual media-grubs. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it’s hard to escape it. Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight.

Stitching snow by rc lewis