Picking up where Grimm left off, Rafe Martin tells the angst-ridden tale of Ardwin Birdwing, the youngest prince. Nicholas Stuart Gray's The Seventh Swan is probably the best Ursula Synge's Swan's Wing commits even worse offenses against adverbs than Birdwing does. Unfortunately, "The Wild Swans" has thus far made for three continuations that are all disappointing to varying degrees. Rather than a tidy happily-ever-after ending, it leaves one of its characters with a swan's wing instead of an arm. This particular fairy tale is one of my favorites. And then I admitted defeat to my first impression. However, I persuaded myself that I was being overly picky and judgmental, and because I was in a waiting room with nothing else to read, I plodded through another few hundred pages. There it is: a clunky adverb and imagery that doesn't actually do anything.
Rambles.NET: Rafe Martin, Birdwing Rafe Martin,Ī red flag went up when I cracked open Rafe Martin's continuation of the Grimm tale "The Wild Swans." The opening sentence read, "Rain pelted heavily against the narrow, glazed window."
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