A review by moscat
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

I enjoyed. It has some real fun with fairytale tropes and logic, the start has some great fey-as-horror vibes, and Miryem and Wanda's points of view are great at building a picture of life in the village from different perspectives. It gets a bit bogged down in the middle, maybe too many POV characters, and some events that we maybe didn't need to be explicitly shown on screen. The ending picks up, there's maybe one climax/reversal too many but I think that's a function of trying to pay off everything that was set up in the middle. And it does pay them off. For anyone looking for snowy Winternight vibes I recommend.
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