Review: A Fantasy or a Nightmare?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2013
White Swans is an entirely different experience than you'd expect. When the book starts, I thought it'd be a fairy tale fantasy story about a young girl who is secretly a princess. She wakes up several centuries back in time in a fancy castle. Her room overlooks a lake where swans are swimming peacefully.She is dressed for breakfast by a maid and meets the charming Lord Deverow for breakfast complete with butlers, table service and fancy place settings.But things aren't what they seem, and a terror lurks beneath the surface. Kendika is warned to be on guard against informants. Could the servants be spying on them? And what for? She learns to act properly for a young lady of that time period, but can she control her thoughts?And what about those swans? Why do their eyes look so sad? She gets the feeling she must watch her step... and then there's the eerie feeling of being watched.Who can she trust? Kendika must figure out the rules of this strange world without asking too many questions, especially the kind that would get her punished. Is she truly trapped in a gilded cage, or is there a way out?