Laura E. Weymouth

This was a good story, a retelling of the story of the girl whose brothers are turned into swans and she has to make them shirts from nettles. This has a few twists that refresh it and made it really stand out to me.
Rowenna Winthrop has always known that she has magic and wants her mother to teach her but her mother thinks that she needs some maturity first, until her mother dies. Then her mother comes back but wrong and mutes her, changes her brothers and a boy who came to her for help into swans and runs her away from her village. She has to find a way to break the curses and to survive and the price is high.
There are some moments when things are messy in this story and she often has to make hard choices but it was a really great read.… (more)