Naomi novik spinning silver review5/27/2023 With originality, she completes these tasks and accidentally sets into motion the way for the local lord to marry his plain daughter to the Tsar.Įnter the second narrator, Irina, daughter of the lord and forced to marry the young Tsar (whose powers come from a fire demon carried within). So the Staryk king sets Miryem three almost impossible tasks: to turn his silver coin into gold. His world is of winter cold, silver and white and his people steal gold as it is a rare treasure for them. Her soft father cannot collect his debts, so she hardens her heart (a poverty stricken family can do that to a person) and proves an excellent debt collector in his place.īefore long, rumours abound that she can spin silver into gold (well, silver kopeks into gold coin) and the winter fairy king hears of it. It starts with Miryem, a young Jewish girl from a family of moneylenders. This book is interesting, as it is told in the first person by not one, but several characters and there is no chapter heading to warn the reader of a narrator change. Ms Novik has set her story in a long ago Russia, with a Tsar ruling the lands. I was familiar with the original Grimm Brothers’ Rumpelstiltskin tale but this book takes that tale to new heights, twists it, adds many more characters and eventually achieves a happy ending, even for those considered unredeemable. Spinning Silver is a wondrous fantastical extended fairy tale, the latest from proven author, Naomi Novik.
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