![]() The book is also keenly aware of the tension between the comforting benefits of staying still and the sometimes heartbreaking costs of allowing for change. The idea that transformation is never quite complete threads its way through the story, as Blanca and Roja push and pull on their roles as sisters, Barclay yearns both for a return to the forest and for Roja, and Page begins to understand his parents' anxiety around his genderfluidity. McLemore's characteristically lush prose and vivid metaphors are on full display here, but most successful is her blending and breaking of several fairy tales, pulling what are usually black and white tropes into the gray spaces where the characters' identities begin to take shape. What follows is an authentically messy and desperate attempt by the four teens to save the girls from the swans and protect the boys from their families. ![]() ![]() After physically becoming one with the forest months ago, friends Barclay and Page are turned human again, entering the girls' lives to play unexpected roles in their fate, all while distancing themselves from their former lives. In every generation in Blanca and Roja's family, the swans claim a del Cisne girl, transforming the chosen sister into a swan and leaving the other human. ![]()
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