Spinning Silver
A moneylender's daughter turns silver into gold well enough to attract the attention of the winter king, in a Rumpelstiltskin retelling with three narrators and a great deal to say about debt. Colder and cleverer than Uprooted. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 3 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. Readers who want a fae bargain plot with essentially no spice and exceptional writing.
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How it rates
- Author
- Naomi Novik
- Series
- Standalone — nothing to wait for
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 3/5
- Plot
- 5/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Lithvas, a folkloric Eastern Europe under permanent winter
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 473
On the spice rating Almost entirely closed-door. The romance is negotiated rather than consummated on the page. How the scale works.
Content warnings antisemitism, violence, forced marriage.
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