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Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

Start date: January 1, 2022

Finish date: January 31, 2022

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Nov 24, 2018 Emma rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, witches, russia-eastern-european

I preferred Uprooted. This had all the makings of a lavish, gorgeous fairy tale and in many ways that is what it was. I very much enjoyed the first half before I started to feel bogged down. I put the book away for a while and returned to it just this week. I found my interest in the story patchy. I would read it with absorption for a while and then feel ‘stuck’ again, my interest waning. Beautiful evocative writing, but the tale itself was bloated with too many viewpoints.

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Jul 18, 2018 Unabridged Bibliophile rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

All the stars!!!

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Aug 05, 2019 Jocelyn rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-five, audiobooking, straight-outta-the-library

An absolutely wondrous folklore retelling. My heart is full. ❤️

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Jan 30, 2022 Ellen-Arwen Tristram rated it it was ok

Shelves: started-reading

This is a review of the Audible version, and I've put the whole lot in spoilers. This rating may be reviewed if I read the physical book but I need a break! (Please don't hate me - I know how popular this book is!)

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Feb 28, 2024 Krystyna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, retellings, adult, favorites, audiobook, i-own, ebook, physical, fairy-tales, bookmarked-book-club

A wonderfully magical story that I wish I had picked up sooner. The Winter King, the Staryks, the magic...and that ending...all of it was perfection. If you enjoy reading fairytale retellings and/or books with found families then add this one to your TBR. It has such strong female characters, which I love, and multiple POVs. Naomi Novik's writing is amazing. She weaves this story together so seamlessly. I have decided that I will pick up anything she writes. This would also be a great book to re ...more

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Jun 12, 2022 Cleo rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy-retelling, fantasy

I struggled with the rating of this book, because I absolutely loved it, but I also felt like it drug on in certain parts. Ultimately, I decided 4.5 would be the appropriate rating for this. Spinning Silver read like a fairy tale, although the different perspectives could get a little confusing at times, and sometimes I wondered why even have a certain character's perspective there at all. And then some didn't even felt necessary to have their own perspective at all. But, overall, I enjoyed the ...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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