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    Spinning Silver: A rich and enchanting fairytale retelling
    Spinning Silver: A rich and enchanting fairytale retelling
    Spinning Silver: A rich and enchanting fairytale retelling
    Audiobook16 hours

    Spinning Silver: A rich and enchanting fairytale retelling

    Written by Naomi Novik

    Narrated by Katy Sobey

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Will dark magic claim their home?

    Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s too kind-hearted to collect his debts. They face poverty, until Miryem hardens her own heart and takes up his work in their village. Her success creates rumours she can turn silver into gold, which attract the fairy king of winter himself. He sets her an impossible challenge – and if she fails, she’ll die. Yet if she triumphs, it may mean a fate worse than death. And in her desperate efforts to succeed, Miryem unwittingly spins a web which draws in the unhappy daughter of a lord.

    Irina’s father schemes to wed her to the tsar – he will pay any price to achieve this goal. However, the dashing tsar is not what he seems. And the secret he hides threatens to consume the lands of mortals and winter alike. Torn between deadly choices, Miryem and Irina embark on a quest that will take them to the limits of sacrifice, power and love.

    As with her standalone novel Uprooted, Naomi Novik has once again been influenced by classic folktales. Taking Rumpelstiltskin as her starting point, Spinning Silver is a rich, multilayered new story which is a joy to read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateJul 12, 2018
    ISBN9781509899050
    Spinning Silver: A rich and enchanting fairytale retelling
    Author

    Naomi Novik

    Naomi Novik is the acclaimed author of the Temeraire series and standalone fairytale fantasy Uprooted. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award and has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, as well as the Locus Award for Best New Writer and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of the graphic novel Will Supervillains Be on the Final? Fascinated with both history and legends, Novik is a first-generation American raised on Polish fairy tales and stories of Baba Yaga. Her own adventures include pillaging degrees in English literature and computer science from various ivory towers, designing computer games, and helping to build the Archive of Our Own for fanfiction and other fanworks. Novik is a co-founder of the Organization for Transformative Works. She lives in New York City with husband and Hard Case Crime founder Charles Ardai and their daughter, Evidence, surrounded by an excessive number of purring computers.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a brilliant piece of fiction writing. The story is magical and enchanting, with badass and beautiful female characters. However, some readers struggled to finish the book due to the changing perspectives and repetitive nature of the story. Overall, it is a wonderful story that is thoroughly enjoyable.

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    • 2/5
      I really struggled to finish this book! I started with the paperback, and the first third of this story is really quite good, but after that it deteriorates significantly. The changing perspectives was fine when it was only two characters, but to add new perspectives late in the story did not work, in my opinion. It made the story unnecessarily difficult to enjoy, particularly as it became so repetitive. Perhaps a narrative in third person would have been a better choice. Could only get to the end by switching to the audiobook and listening on my work commute. Two stars.

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    • 5/5
      Wow. Beautifully presented. I loved this book. The female characters were badass and beautiful.

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    • 3/5
      It was a good book. I didn't expect that ending.
      I am practicing my English so I thought it was a good idea with this book. And It was, but I guess I had to start with a shorter one. At first I didn't understand the different s points of view and I got confused about who is narrating, but was a good book.
    • 5/5
      This is so magical that there were times that I was enchanted by the whole story.
    • 3/5
      Not a fan of Naomi, I have to say, but at least this story was more enjoyable. The narrator I didn’t like.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely brilliant! One of the best pieces of fiction writings. Loved every part of it!
    • 5/5
      4.5 never have I ever want a prolong romance so bad with these two couples. Meanwhile it's usually really hard for me to not cringe reading fantasy purposely focused heavily on romance. The banter, the conversation, the narration are quite poetic yet so witty and funny at times. It is very atmospheric too. I went ahead without knowing much and it's the best way to do. Just wanna point out it is a multipov and everyone is in first person narration. It took awhile to pick up whose pov was I reading whenever a new pov begins within 1 chapter.
    • 5/5
      It's a Wonderful story , read nicely. I thoroughly enjoyed it