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A review by carrot_xo
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
1.0
How many POVs are too many? This book gave me a fucking slump.
It breaks my heart to write this review cuz I loved Noami Novik’s Scholomance series and Uprooted.
In the beginning, the book sucked me in with the stubborn and badass protagonist, Miryem, who would do the things her father would not, to put food on the table. Also, the dreamy vibes were great. It had the floral, otherworldly and immersive yet realistic narration like in her Uprooted. It felt like a breath of fresh air. But then the multiple first person POVs started. It takes time to learn the giveaways of each POV but figuring out the POVs threw me off. It broke the enchanted feeling of the narration. The writing got too wordy at times and the fillers, in my opinion, felt unnecessary.
There are a total of six POVs- Miryem, Stefon, Irina, Wanda, Mirnatius and Magreta. Most of them tell the same story, so some of the POVs like Stefon and Magreta felt pointless. For example, Stefon’s pov mainly shows us three things- how innocent he is in the face of cruelty, his love for his siblings and how Miryem’s parents unknowingly long for Miryem after she leaves. This was already shown by Wanda’s pov! It felt like torture getting through the POVs of Stefon and Magreta cuz no, I don’t want to know how long you need to have tea and chat with other maids to acquire a gift in name of the Tsarina.
Multiple POVs work in a huge fantasy world with different sub plots. It just doesn’t work in a plot as small as this. It was draining to read them with no significant movement in the plot.
I almost dnf-ed this. I need to stop this bad habit of reading books that I didn’t like. Nevertheless, I forced myself to finish it and the ending was okay but it wasn’t worth the torture this book was.
All in all, this book tried to tell too many stories and all of them fell flat. It would’ve been way better if the author just focused on Miryem and Irina (also maybe Wanda).
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It breaks my heart to write this review cuz I loved Noami Novik’s Scholomance series and Uprooted.
In the beginning, the book sucked me in with the stubborn and badass protagonist, Miryem, who would do the things her father would not, to put food on the table. Also, the dreamy vibes were great. It had the floral, otherworldly and immersive yet realistic narration like in her Uprooted. It felt like a breath of fresh air. But then the multiple first person POVs started. It takes time to learn the giveaways of each POV but figuring out the POVs threw me off. It broke the enchanted feeling of the narration. The writing got too wordy at times and the fillers, in my opinion, felt unnecessary.
There are a total of six POVs- Miryem, Stefon, Irina, Wanda, Mirnatius and Magreta. Most of them tell the same story, so some of the POVs like Stefon and Magreta felt pointless. For example, Stefon’s pov mainly shows us three things- how innocent he is in the face of cruelty, his love for his siblings and how Miryem’s parents unknowingly long for Miryem after she leaves. This was already shown by Wanda’s pov! It felt like torture getting through the POVs of Stefon and Magreta cuz no, I don’t want to know how long you need to have tea and chat with other maids to acquire a gift in name of the Tsarina.
Multiple POVs work in a huge fantasy world with different sub plots. It just doesn’t work in a plot as small as this. It was draining to read them with no significant movement in the plot.
I almost dnf-ed this. I need to stop this bad habit of reading books that I didn’t like. Nevertheless, I forced myself to finish it and the ending was okay but it wasn’t worth the torture this book was.
All in all, this book tried to tell too many stories and all of them fell flat. It would’ve been way better if the author just focused on Miryem and Irina (also maybe Wanda).
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