Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Author: Naomi Novik

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Date: July 10, 2018

Pages: 480

Format: Hardcover

My Rating: ⭐⭐

Purchase Links: [Chapters/Indigo] [Amazon]

Goodreads Synopsis:

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.

My Review:

* Thank you Penguin Random House for sending me a finished copy of Spinning Silver for an honest review *

DNF 31%

I am shocked that I chose to not finish Spinning Silver. It is the first book I DNF’ed and I’m glad to be done with it, though surprisingly, I enjoyed Spinning Silver more than Uprooted. Spinning Silver is a loose retelling of Rumplestiltskin and I enjoyed the concept.

Spinning Silver has a lot of detail and information packed into each chapter, but unfortunately, it is mostly unnecessary detail and information! This caused the chapters to feel very long and drag on forever, I kept feeling like I was reading and reading but was going nowhere. I was just waiting for something, anything really, to happen that would push the story forward.

Another issue I had with the book was the many POVs from different characters, the constant shifting in the viewpoints caused the pacing to feel abnormal. It was not obvious who the POV belonged to as well, it would take re-reading and some guesswork while reading to understand whose perspective I was reading. The constant shifting and confusing changes in POV were annoying and confusing.

In the end, there were little things that kept me interested for the 150 pages that I managed to get through, however, the more I read the less interested I became to find out where the story was going. I realized the book was draining, I wasn’t enjoying it enough to spend my time reading it, while other books waited on the shelf to be read. I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, matter of the fact was that I couldn’t even finish the book.

#NaomiNovik #Uprooted #SpinningSilver #2star