I recommend this book to anyone who loves fairy tales, as well as a great, well-written story. It isnt easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. The entire castle must work together to help break the curse before time runs out. Friday knows that they are meant to be together, and will stop at nothing to help him and his siblings. Throughout the process of helping the swan brothers, Friday and Tristan, one of the brothers, develop a strong connection and fall in love. Friday, a master seamstress, agrees to help. The only way to break the curse is for their sister to weave them all shirts of nettle, a very difficult task. : Hero (The Woodcutter Sisters): 9781531809799: Alethea Kontis, Katherine Kellgren: Books : Hero (The Woodcutter Sisters): 9781531809799: Alethea Kontis, Katherine Kellgren: Books Skip to main content. These brothers have had a curse placed upon them, in which they are swans by day, humans by night. In the midst of all of this, Friday discovers seven brothers, along with their sister, in a tower of the castle rarely visited. Friday is caring and loving to everyone she meets, and even oversees the children that are residing as refugees in the palace after a sea appeared throughout the kingdom, forcing many citizens out of their homes. While I did read the first book, and thoroughly enjoyed it, I didn’t read the second, and it still made perfect sense. Dearest tells the story of Friday Woodcutter, sister to Sunday and Saturday, who have their own books in the series. Dearest, by Alethea Kontis, is a remarkably imaginative story, based upon a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

The woodcutter sisters series