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Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

Start date: January 1, 2022

Finish date: January 31, 2022

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Jan 29, 2019 Marie (UK) rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2019-reading-challenge

Retellings is currently my favourite genre and Naomi Novak one of my most read authors, I even bought this book and had looked forward to it. In reality neither the genre nor the author managed to make a book that I enjoyed reading The tale of Rumpelstiltskin, on which this book is based, is perhaps a 5 or 6 page story for children, Novak has stretched this to a hefty 480 pages, in my opinion she could have done away with at least half of them. I found it difficult to tell which character was ta ...more

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Jan 13, 2019 Tanya Patrice rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks

I can't even ... I had to take a day off from reading after finishing this book because Ihad such a bad reading hangover. It's everything - you will fall in love with the story, the characters - you will become invested! Amazing storytelling by this author - yes, read it if you haven't yet. ...more

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Aug 19, 2019 Xee rated it liked it

So, 3 star. A middling 3 star at that.
There were too many threads going about, I would have prefered more time with the Tsar and also the staryk king should have had a pov. Everyone else did..
I have mixed feelings about this one. Was really liking it up til like the last 1/3 from whereon I basically hated both Miriem and Irina.
There was barely any redemption for both of them atleast in my eyes and I would have rated it a 2 star if I hadn't loved the book uptil that point. ...more

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Feb 26, 2019 Payal Banik rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fantasy, fae

Amazing plot and amazing characters!! Though some of the characters kept me reminding of game of thrones but otherwise the author has created masterpiece!!

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