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Spinning Silver

A rich and enchanting fairytale retelling from the author of Uprooted

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Spinning Silver

Von: Naomi Novik
Gesprochen von: Katy Sobey
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Will dark magic claim their home?

Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s too kind-hearted to collect his debts. They face poverty, until Miryem hardens her own heart and takes up his work in their village. Her success creates rumours she can turn silver into gold, which attract the fairy king of winter himself. He sets her an impossible challenge – and if she fails, she’ll die. Yet if she triumphs, it may mean a fate worse than death. And in her desperate efforts to succeed, Miryem unwittingly spins a web which draws in the unhappy daughter of a lord.

Irina’s father schemes to wed her to the tsar – he will pay any price to achieve this goal. However, the dashing tsar is not what he seems. And the secret he hides threatens to consume the lands of mortals and winter alike. Torn between deadly choices, Miryem and Irina embark on a quest that will take them to the limits of sacrifice, power and love.

As with her standalone novel Uprooted, Naomi Novik has once again been influenced by classic folktales. Taking Rumpelstiltskin as her starting point, Spinning Silver is a rich, multilayered new story which is a joy to read.

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Cool and clever and warm and satisfying and dire and wonderful; I loved this book so much (Laini Taylor)
A book as cool and mysterious as a winter’s night, with two marvelous heroines at its heart. Spinning Silver pits the cold of endless winter against the fires of duty, love and sacrifice. I couldn’t put it down (Katherine Arden)
Dauntless women, cruel lords and wayward fairies come together in a beautifully realised world. Brimming over with fairy-tale magic, SPINNING SILVER proves Naomi Novik to be a master fantasist at the top of her game (Zen Cho)
Lovely, intricate and strong. A gorgeous read. The sort of book one reads again and again (Genevieve Cogman)
Enchanting, in every sense of that fine old word. A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge (Robin Hobb on Uprooted)
I didn't know how much I wanted to read a book like this until it was already in my hands. Uprooted has everything I love about Novik's writing style, with the added bonus of some old world magic and the flavor of a dark faerie story (Patrick Rothfuss on Uprooted)
The magic in Uprooted, with its realistic moral dimension, is so vividly believable that it almost seems you could work the spells. But the book will do that for you (Ursula K. Le Guin on Uprooted)
Uprooted has everything I love: a great heroine, new takes on old myths and legends, and surprising twists and turns. A delight (Cassandra Clare on Uprooted)
This gorgeous, complex, and magical novel...rises well above a mere modern re-imagining of classic tales…Novik probes the edges between the everyday and the extraordinary, balancing moods of wonder and of inevitability. Her work inspires deep musings about love, wealth, and commitment, and embodies the best of the timeless fairy-tale aesthetic…This is the kind of book that one might wish to inhabit forever (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
A remarkable achievement... Confirms a huge step forward for Novik (SFX Magazine, 5 Stars)
Novik outdoes herself in Spinning Silver... A fairy tale in the most epic of ways, but one with a strong, proud and beautiful heart at the centre of it (The Bookbag, 5 Stars)
Novik has created something that deserves to be a sure fire hit - a tale that's ancient, contemporary, traditional and yet forward thinking (The Bookbag, 5 Stars)
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A great storyline meets a great narrator! I'm totally satisfight with this purchasement and I'm pretty shure I'll listen to it more than once.

One of my favourite audio books of all time

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I was hooked from the first chapter. A wonderful story told from the perspective of three girls, a Jewish moneylender‘s daughter, a Duke‘s daughter and a poor drunkard‘s daughter who grow into strong women, saving their loved ones and their worlds. There are many unexpected twists in this story, there is humor, love, horror - a perfect fairytale. It was sometimes difficult to follow when the perspective changed because the narrator doesn’t change her voice much but all in all wonderfully read as well. I loved it.

A wonderful fantastic fairytale

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What a masterpiece. It's weaving so many threads that run alongside each other for so long, you barely even notice once they converge, while you're busy having fun picking out all the fairy tales you can find in a world that feels entirely real, but just one step to the left. Naomi Novik strikes again with just dropping her readers into a setting that ×feels× historical with the added ingredient of just ONE thing of magic that plays by its own rules but is just so ingrained in the world that you go with ot and try to figure out the rules as you do (which is its own kind of fun). Fantastic voice performance too bringing sth. different and recognizable to all the protagonists.

The DNA of every fairy tale you ever loved, spun up into a new and exciting turn

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It took me only a chapter to be drawn into the world and story Naomi Novik has built. At first I wasn't too attached to some of the characters, but by the end... without giving away too much, it's safe to say that you should give all of them a chance!
Katy Sobey does an incredible job at making all their voices and personalities come to life, so I can only recommend this audio book!

A fantastic tale read well

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Ich muss zugeben, zu Beginn habe ich mir mit der Geschichte etwas schwer getan. Die Erzählsichtweise wechselt in zwischen verschiedenen Personen, darunter 3 junge Frauen ähnlichen Alters. Bis diese Figuren so weit etabliert sind, dass man aus dem Text heraus zuordnen kann, wer hier gerade erzählt, wäre es hilfreich gewesen, wenn vor jedem Wechsel der Name gesagt worden wäre.

Davon abgesehen ist es eine herausragende Geschichte. Zu Beginn scheinbar zusammenhangslose Erzählstränge finden zusammen, verweben sich und teilen sich auch wieder. Die Autorin greift bekannte Märchenthemen (Wie schon der Titel impliziert: Rumpelstilzchens Stroh zu Gold) im weitesten Sinne auf, interpretiert sie aber so anders und neu, dass ich damit keine Inhalte vorweg nehme, wenn ich das hier sage.

Die Charaktere entwickeln sich mit jeder Wendung weiter und lassen den Leser staunend und sehr gut unterhalten zurück und die 3 Hauptfiguren sind, jede auf ihre ganz eigene Weise, eine Heldin.

Daher: Aus meiner Sicht uneingeschränkt empfehlenswert.

Tolle Geschichte, zu Beginn etwas verwirrend.

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