The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher is the tale of a fifteen year old miller's daughter, who suddenly finds herself betrothed to a lord. When she meets Lord Crevan for the first time, something about him just strikes her as wrong. She wants more than anything to refuse his proposal; but she cannot safely do so without risking repercussions on her family. Lord Crevan is a sorcerer and orders her to follow a magic white road at night a few days later in order to visit his house. Once there, she discovers not only does he have five living wives and one deceases one already, but she is trapped for no one can leave the house without Lord Crevan's permission because the road is guarded by monsters that he has conjured. With help from some of the wives and a hedgehog that she met on the way, she must finish each task that she is given by her betrothed because failure means marriage while trying to find a way to free them all.
I checked this book out through the Amazon Prime library and found it quite entertaining. The plot and characters are not overly complex so that it reads something like a retelling of a fairy tale. Still it was quite an enjoyable tale, and something that I would consider reading again at a future time.
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