I thought The Wild Swans was a wonderful book. I had several friends who went to the bath houses in San Francisco in the 1970s (almost our entire tenor section in choir was gay), and they subsequently died of AIDS, so I found it very powerful and it hit me very hard.
Another thing you did right with the book which so many are lacking was you had your female lead in the fairy tale part pray and have religion as an everyday part of her life. So many authors set stories in centuries past when it was expected for people to go to church yet this doesn't seem to be part of their characters' lives.
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Date: 2007-10-22 07:03 pm (UTC)Another thing you did right with the book which so many are lacking was you had your female lead in the fairy tale part pray and have religion as an everyday part of her life. So many authors set stories in centuries past when it was expected for people to go to church yet this doesn't seem to be part of their characters' lives.