![]() ![]() This is the kind of book that one might wish to inhabit forever. Readers will be impressed by the way Novik ties the myriad threads of her story together by the end, and, despite the book’s length, they will be sad to walk away from its deeply immersive setting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her work inspires deep musings about love, wealth, and commitment, and embodies the best of the timeless fairy-tale aesthetic. While the books don’t take place in the same. However, I found these absoutely fascinating and loved Novik’s writing in both Uprooted and Spinning Silver. Spinning Silver is a spiritual successor to Novik’s 2015 novel Uprooted, for which she won the Nebula for best science fiction and fantasy novel. Novik probes the edges between the everyday and the extraordinary, balancing moods of wonder and of inevitability. The only book by Naomi Novik I’d read before was the first book in the Temeraire series, which my husband loved and still counts among his favourite fantasy series, but which didn’t really grab me or draw me in. Secondary characters-a peasant boy, a duke’s daughter, a tsar-eventually become narrators, weaving interconnections that feel simultaneously intimate and mythic. Novik ( Uprooted) begins the story through the eyes of Miryem, a Jewish moneylender’s daughter, whose pride in her ability to wring payments from borrowers draws the demanding attention of the terrifying, otherworldly, and rules-bound Staryk, who are ruled by a wintry, gold-loving king. This gorgeous, complex, and magical novel, grounded in Germanic, Russian, and Jewish folklore but richly overlaid with a cohesive, creative story of its own, rises well above a mere modern re. ![]()
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