Yes, it is. I haven't read any of her books before, so I will trust you on this one.
Wow. you are lucky, F, you escaped the Mercedes Lackey stage that so many of us passed through. my early-to-mid teenage years can be remembered in large part through the overlapping Mercedes Lackey stage, Anne McCaffrey stage, and Piers Anthony stage. what's really dreadful is I can't get myself to get rid of all of them because I'm sentimentally attached! *tears hair*
I also liked ML's "Firebird" much better than "Black Swan", as well. although I have to say, I remember enjoying "Black Swan" on a purely story-of-it's-own level for fleshing out Odile. she has 5 or 6 other books that work with fairy tales (to varying degrees); the first is "Fire Rose" and I can't help it but I like it so! or, rather, bits of it. 's one of the books where I can go through and skip all the scenes told in one character's voice, and the book is much better. *roll*
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Date: 2007-06-03 04:10 pm (UTC)Wow. you are lucky, F, you escaped the Mercedes Lackey stage that so many of us passed through. my early-to-mid teenage years can be remembered in large part through the overlapping Mercedes Lackey stage, Anne McCaffrey stage, and Piers Anthony stage. what's really dreadful is I can't get myself to get rid of all of them because I'm sentimentally attached! *tears hair*
I also liked ML's "Firebird" much better than "Black Swan", as well. although I have to say, I remember enjoying "Black Swan" on a purely story-of-it's-own level for fleshing out Odile. she has 5 or 6 other books that work with fairy tales (to varying degrees); the first is "Fire Rose" and I can't help it but I like it so! or, rather, bits of it. 's one of the books where I can go through and skip all the scenes told in one character's voice, and the book is much better. *roll*