Naomi Novik - Spinning Silver

Author: Naomi Novik

Title: Spinning Silver

Language: English

Format: ebook

Rating: 4½ stars

No of pages: 480

Reading challenge: A book with a silly title

Read: 22.07.2018

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Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders... but her father isn't a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife's dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers' pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed--and finds herself more than up to the task. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold.

But having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it's worth--especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand.

I have no words. I read it practically in one go, because I found putting it down nigh impossible. The story simply dragged me in and refused to let me go. The spin on Rumpelstiltskin was so finely and loosely made that I actually forgot that it was loosely based on it. The story was original, or at the very least I have not had the pleasure to read anything like it before, and honestly, it was a pure joy to devour.

Just speechless by the pure brilliance of this magnificent book.