But McLemore’s vivid descriptions create atale rich with visual detail, and readers will be compelled to keep reading to findout the fate of these sisters. This tale reimaginesSnow White and Rose Red as young Latinx women, and it mixes their storieswith details and themes from “The Ugly Duckling,” Swan Lake, and “The WildSwans.” Depth of character is sometimes sacrificed in order to incorporate somany threads (e.g., Yearling’s story of dealing with family corruption is less welldrawn than other narrative elements). When a bear who is also a boy called Yearling arrives on their doorstep,followed by his sibling Page (who uses both he and she pronouns), their storybecomes more complicated and their fates much less clear. Blanca and Roja, the del Cisne sisters, have grown up knowing their family iscursed as a result of a bargain made generations ago, and that eventually eitherBlanca or Roja will be trapped in the body of a swan and live among them.Blanca, fair-haired and sweet, and Roja, flame-haired and difficult, spend theirlives trying to become more like each other so that they will be intertwined andultimately impossible to separate when the swans finally arrive to claim theirdue.
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