Zoë Marriott. Average rating · 14, ratings · 1, reviews · shelved 54, times. Showing 15 distinct works. sort by. popularity original publication year title average rating number of pages. The Swan Kingdom. by. Zoë Marriott (Goodreads Author) avg rating — . Editions for The Swan Kingdom: (Hardcover published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in · Zoë Marriott is the author of the young adult fantasy novels The Swan Kingdom, Daughter of the Flames, and Shadows on the Moon, as well as the first two books in the Name of the Blade trilogy— The Name of the Blade and Darkness www.doorway.ru
67 quotes from Zoë Marriott: 'People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there', 'To ugly ducklings everywhere, Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons: They'll never get to be swans', and 'I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Apparently, Zoë Marriott, whose novel THE SWAN KINGDOM is a remarkably faithful but cleverly imaginative take on Andersen's classic tale, felt the same way. Marriott's heroine is named Alexandra. The only daughter in a family with three sons, she has always felt particularly close to her mother, a wise woman whose true powers are hidden even. The Swan Kingdom ebook By Zoe Marriott. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. Author. Zoe Marriott. Publisher.
The way Marriott crafts magic structures never fails to take my breath away. She wraps her world in magic like a cloak, and lets it flow freely around her characters–always a tenuous connection rather than a solid one. The evil magic in The Swan Kingdoms is as choking as the currents of the enaid are cool and ever changing. What could easily be confusing and stumbling is Marriott’s forte, her utilization of magical structures flow as freely and easily as her stories themselves. Zoë Marriott is the author of the young adult fantasy novels The Swan Kingdom, Daughter of the Flames, and Shadows on the Moon, as well as the first two books in the Name of the Blade trilogy— The Name of the Blade and Darkness Hidden. The Swan Kingdom by Zoë Marriott is one of my favorite fairy tale retellings of all time. I love it. Zoë has taken the old tale, The Wild Swans and made it completely her own. She wrote us an absolutely lovely guest post that talks about the book far better than I could, so I'm going to link it here.
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