Full review can also be found on: Paein and Ms4Tune's Book Blog 
 For some reason the title makes me think this should be a Sleeping Beauty not a The Wild Swans tale. It might just be the 'spinning' though. Spinning wheel? No? Ok then... 
 Liddi has 8 brothers and I found it very hard to keep track of who was who! But to be honest it wasn't that important. And while the end was sad, it was more through her reaction than anything else. But it did make me cry. 
 I had a few issues with things in the storyline, which were mostly explained away so that's fine. Except, why wasn't she going about mouthing the words? Unless she tried that and, like my dad does, over pronounced and was miss-interpreted and accidentally ordered 5 thousand tooth picks or something. You can never tell. 
 I like these Sci-fi fairytales by R.C.Lewis, the romance is part of the story, but not a major part of the plot, it's far more realistic. Obviously, again, these books will be compared to Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles, becaues they're the only other sci-fi fairytales out there - that I know of/ haven't forgotten about, if there are more please let me know immediately - and I wonder if that's why she's moved away from the more well known ones. BUT I want to see her take on them! Unless she's a fan of The Lunar Chronicles of course, then maybe she's too influenced by them now, like trying to review something after reading other peoples reviews... 
 But back to the book....I'd have liked to see more of Liddi's brothers to be honest, to be able to have a favourite within them would have been amazing, because they seemed to be great characters. But I think Tiav is probably my favourite. He was quite grown up for how young he was too. His friend was a bit of an idiot however, but he did seem to grow out of it so that was good. 
 If you love fairytales and Sci-Fi, I'd recommend sci-fi fairytales. And even if you only like one of the genres, give them a go. They're good!