Daughter of the Forest

, #1

English language

Published June 20, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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978-0-00-736971-3
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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 …

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This is very satisfying for the kind of thing it is, and did not piss me off either as a feminist or (much) as an oh-god-not-another-anachronistic-Mary Sue-tomboy-everyone-loves hater. And it's very readable, and the romance doesn't whack you over the head till the very end.

That sounds like a list of relative virtues, but really, I have a hard time reading fantasy at all lately because of this sort of problem.