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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780765343437
ISBN: 0765343436
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: February 18, 2002
Publisher: Tor Books
Sales Rank: 11257
Studio: Tor Books
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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...
Amazon.com Review:
At the heart of this surprisingly accomplished first novel, first book of the Sevenwaters trilogy, is a retelling of an ancient Celtic legend. Marillier's story, however, is much more than a slightly disguised fairy tale. Young Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Irish Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, a domain well protected from invading Saxons and Britons by dense forest where, legend says, fey Deirdre, the Lady of the Forest, walks the woodland paths at night. Colum is first and foremost a warrior, bent on maintaining his lands against all outsiders. Not all of his sons are so bound to the old ways, and that family friction leads to outright disobedience when Sorcha and her brother Finbar help a Briton captive escape from Colum's dungeon. Soon after, Colum brings home a new wife who ensorcels everyone she can't otherwise manipulate. By her spell Sorcha's brothers are cursed to become swans. Only Sorcha, hiding deep in the forest, can break the spell by painfully weaving shirts of starwort nettle--but then Sorcha is captured by Britons and taken away across the sea. Determined to break the curse despite her captivity, Sorcha continues to work, little expecting that ultimately she will have to chose between saving her brothers and protecting the Briton lord who has defended her throughout her trials. Marillier's writing is deft and heartfelt, bypassing the usual bombast of fantasy fireworks for a rich, magical story of loyalty and love. --Charlene Brusso
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Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest (Tor, 2000)
After hearing wonderful things about this series and Marillier's writing in general for years, I finally went ahead and gave Daughter of the Forest a try. And I tried. I really did. But in the end, I abandoned the book; it persisted in not only going nowhere, but taking forever to get there, and the writing was nowhere near good enough to justify the nonexistent pace. There is much superior fantasy to be had these days; we seem to ... Read More
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I was a little reluctant about this book, but it turned out to be pretty good. Some corny stuff in it, overall though not bad.
Follows the story of a young girl, with six brothers, and what happens to her life when her widowed father takes on a new mysterious wife. And what she must do in order to get her family back, and how she deals with falling in love with a guy from the wrong side of the tracks (or the ocean).
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First book in the Sevenwaters trilogy.
Marillier has crafted a gorgeous retelling of a Celtic fairytale. Lord Colum, an Irish widower, with six sons and a daughter, buries his grief at his beloved wife's death by throwing himself into fortifying his stronghold in order to withstand the endless attacks of the Britons.
Finbar believes that his father is too harsh and decides to help a wounded Briton escape from Colum's dungeon. He asks his young sister Sorcha, a gifted healer, ... Read More
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Upon having devoured this book in a day and a half,
I was positively bedazzled, mystified and hypnotized, though not without some overpowering sense of loss. For because of these alluring, real characters and settings, I'd myself unwittingly become a part of them;
I felt, thought, and reacted as though everything, in some way or other, would directly affect ME.
I think this is why I'd been so taken with Daughter of the Forest;
though I very much appreciated the refreshing ... Read More
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this is one of my favorite books in the entire world! i first picked this in grade 9 or 10 and to this day it remains one of my favorite and most highly recommended books. i think that marillier is wonderful with words. after reading the first paragraph of this book i was enthralled. i've loved faeries all my life, but after reading this book i became interested in celtic culture and started reading up on it. the characters are all very well done. sorcha is a strong, resiliant woman that you thoroughly ... Read More
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