A review by sydapel
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

adventurous dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Compared to how much I loved Uprooted, this was a bit of a let down for me personally. I enjoyed how it was an exploration of the darker twisted side of fairytales, especially through a female led perspective. However, the pacing of this felt glacially slow and some of the 'favor' spells of the fae creatures were so lost on me that I barely followed parts of the plot. I did like all the main characters in the story and how they exerted their power in very different ways, but it felt like Novik was trying to fit in too much into this story that the character work got buried. 
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