Lou's Reviews > Spinning Silver

4.5 stars

Wow, you guys, this book... This book was fantastic!
It was sold to me as a Rumpelstiltskin retelling, but it's so loosely based on Rumpelstiltskin and so stretched into a 470 page book that it didn't bare much resemblance to the original tale. It kind of bothered me because Rumpelstiltskin is one of my favourite fairy tales and I found loads of opportunities the author missed that could have made the story closer to Rumpelstiltskin, but it was amazing anyhow.

Irina was definitely my favourite character in the book, and I'm so annoyed that(view spoiler)[ she didn't get more of a send off. That ending scene was EPIC but it was told through Magreta's POV, I was quite disappointed. And more so because I NEED to know what happens to her now! Does Mirnatius and her live happily together or what! I need to know, and I'm so hacked off we don't know anything for sure. This is why people make fanfic. (hide spoiler)]
Miryem was great, too, I loved the Jew rep.(view spoiler)[ I was not expecting, who I'm guessing and annoyed we don't get a clarification, is Rumpelstiltskin to marry Miryem in the end. At first I wanted that to happen, but as the book progressed and near the end, their chemistry disappeared and it felt weird they wanted to get married when I was led to believe that they hated each other (yes i'm now remembering that scene at the end of the fire dude's life, but I need more than that to go on.) (hide spoiler)]

Something about this book had an addicting quality that made me not want to put it down. I finished it just under a week, and boy, do I want to read Novik's other books now. This lady needs to keep writing, I need more!!