BibliophileBree

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me an ARC of A Treachery Of Swans. These thoughts are my own. My thoughts: A.B. Poranek has a way with words. After loving Where the Dark Stands Still, I knew I wanted to get my hands on whatever this author wrote next, and I was thrilled to see that A Treachery of Swans was a sapphic Swan Lake retelling. I will admit that Swan Lake is a tale that I am not very familiar with, I remember watching The Swan Princess animated movie as a kid and I know that it stems from a ballet but the actual details of it are fuzzy so my opinion on this novel as a retelling should not hold much weight - I will say that even with my limited knowledge, parts of this were still familiar and I could tell which parts pull from it being a retelling. A.B. Poranek creates such an intriguing gothic atmosphere in this book, and it was so fun to be seeing things through Odile's morally grey eyes.  I really liked Odile, she's a mess of a girl but she's relatable and even...