![]() Spinning Silver’s biggest different from Uprooted is that it is told from multiple first person perspectives interwoven together. We follow Miryem, a Jewish girl who becomes a successful moneylender, and gets propositioned by the Staryk King when it’s claimed she can turn silver into gold. ![]() In this book, we are based in Lithvas, an expy for Lithuania, and that threat is not the Wood but the Staryk, faeries made of ice who have the ability to make a winter even more deadly. Rather than a direct or even indirect sequel to Uprooted, Spinning Silver is a story that simply takes place in the same world, where the supernatural is once more an unacknowledged yet commonplace threat in everyone’s lives. I think it’s fair to say that Spinning Silver was my most anticipated book of the year, and it absolutely did not fail to deliver on my expectations. ![]() *I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review* I basically cried when I got an ARC acceptance through Netgalley. Why did I want to read? Uprooted is one of my favourite books, and this book has fae in it. 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 a king who has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold. ![]() Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders. ![]()
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