5/30/2023 0 Comments Naomi novik spinning silver review![]() Neither of them particularily strong or beautiful or inherently superspecial, but they all try to make the best of what they can do. Irina, a daugher of a local duke without much control over her life. Wanda, a farmgirl who’s much smarter than she looks. Miryem, the fiercely pragmatic moneylender. Especially the main three female characters. They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all.Įasily the best part besides the atmosphere (nailed, of course) and beautiful writing are the characters. They had wanted me to go be a beggar in my grandfather’s house, and leave the rest of my life a quiet mouse in the kitchen. ![]() They had wanted to bury my mother and leave my father behind to die alone. I wasn’t sorry they didn’t like me, I wasn’t sorry I had been hard to them. ![]() I loved nothing about the town or any of them, even now when it was at least familiar ground. It also touches upon medieval antisemitism, the position of women in their society without denying them agency, family, all in a way that makes sense within the story. Novik takes a fairytale and makes in complex, shot through with realism, but no less magical for that. And it’s a lovely, wintry tale subversive yet true to its origins. ![]() ![]() I was a huge fan of Uprooted, so of course I had to pick this up in hardcover as soon as it came out and read it as soon as I could. ![]()
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