Allow yourself to swept away by the captivating writing and brilliant imagination of Lee Carroll through the myth and legend filed wonder that is Black Swan Rising.
Form the blurb;
'Jeweller Garet James isn't the same as everyone else. She just doesn't know it yet.
'With her fair share of problems - money (lack of), and elderly father, a struggling business - Garet should be just like any other young, single New Yorker. If only it was that simple...
'It began with the old silver box that had been soldered shut. All Garet had to do was open it. A favour for the frail owner of the antiques shop. Who Wouldn't help?
'Only then things start to change. Garet doesn't notice at first, the shifts are barley perceptible. But the city is beginning to reveal a darker, long-hidden side. Figures, shadows, flit in and out of her vision. She finds herself drawn to the mysterious Will Hughes. He's a stranger and yet Garet feels she has known him for an eternity.
'And whatever escaped from the box has no intention of going back in...'
A Pandora's box of a tale this novel sweeps us swiftly from the mundane of the real world and into the clawed clutches of fantasy. As we begin to learn of the vampires, faeries and other magical creatures which thrive behind the vale of our comprehension we are also running to keep pace with Garet, and the struggles which come her way fast and furious.
While Black Swan Rising is slightly difficult to get into at the beginning it quickly finds it's footing and begin's to run at pace. Treating us to the broad imagination of Lee Carroll [a pseudonym for the writing partnership of writer Carol Goodman and poet Lee Slonimsky] while drawing us deeper into this complex world through well designed characters.
We Give Black Swan Rising Three Stars
ISBN - 978-0-553-82557-2 Cover Price - £7.99
eBook Available
First published in the United States in 2010 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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