Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

Novik has a knack for creating richly layered fantasy worlds with comple social dynamics ruthless rulers and epic plot twists her poetic narratives often recast magical motifs in une pected ways. The rst book in her Temeraire series, for example, is an alternate history of the Napoleonic wars that includes dragons. This one, a stand-alone retelling of the Brothers rimm’s Rumpelstiltskin, includes a feminist exploration of the politics of money. hatever happens, it won’t be your grandmother’s fairy tale.