Kingdom of Feathers, Deborah Grace White
Kingdom of Feathers, Deborah Grace White
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Kingdom of Feathers
A Retelling of The Wild Swans

Author: Deborah Grace White

Narrator: Rachael Beresford

Unabridged: 14 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/26/2022


Synopsis

Princess Wren is not the crown princess. Everyone else might think her six older brothers are dead, but she knows the truth. They're very much alive, and her oldest brother will absolutely assume the throne. Once he becomes a little less feathered . . . and beaky. The trouble is, that requires Wren to fulfill the terms of the curse that transformed her brothers into swans—which means she can't speak a word to a living soul.

For six years.

Prince Basil wants to become king at eighteen about as much as he wants to inherit the war that's burdened his kingdom for six long years. With the death of his father, he's determined to ignore all advice and reach out to their enemies for an armistice. Even if there's no one to negotiate with except the kingdom's silent, timid crown princess. After all, there must be more to her than meets the eye . . . otherwise the dragons Basil regards as friends wouldn't take such an interest in her.

But other forces are at work, ones with no desire to see the war end. If Wren and Basil want to save their people, they'll have to learn to trust each other. Because the only way to uncover their true enemies might be to embrace the ones they thought they knew.

About Deborah Grace White

Deborah Grace White is an author of YA fantasy and fairy tale retellings who was more or less born reading. She grew up on a wide range of books, from classic literature to light-hearted romps. Her love of fantasy was inevitable from the time her father read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to her and her siblings when she was four years old.

The love of reading has traveled with her unchanged across multiple continents, and carried her from her own childhood all the way to having children of her own.

But if reading is like looking through a window into a magical and beautiful world, beginning to write her own stories was like discovering that she could open that window and climb right out into fantasyland.

Now she gets to live that childhood dream from her hometown of Adelaide, Australia, where she lives with her husband and their three little ones.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tricia on December 31, 2024

This one is my FAVORITE of the entire series, and that is saying something since I have enjoyed all of them! Wren is so incredibly strong, and I loved her bond with her brothers! This is a retelling of the Wild Swans, and one thing I always love about that tale is its emphasis on sibling bonds. This......more

Goodreads review by Laura on November 15, 2021

another hit from Deborah Grace White Oh I looooooove this book!! I reinstated my KU subscription just to read this and I was not disappointed. Granted, I don't love Basil QUITE as much as Rian (*sighs dreamily*) and it's not as amazing a twist as Kingdom of Slumber, but it's still sooooo goooood. I a......more

Goodreads review by Book on November 13, 2021

Content Review: Language: clean Romance: clean Violence: Very, very little; references to war. Recommended for ages 14+ I was delighted to discover White's Solstice fairy tale series, and the fourth installment did not disappoint! I was eager to read a retelling of The Wild Swans, as it is not as well......more