Spinning Silver

I really enjoyed Novik's first book ‘Uprooted'. The book is not nearly as good. I think it fails the most because of the number of different POVs. Uprooted only has one so it's stilted fairy tale-esque language is a feature of the book. This type of language really doesn't work when there are multiple first person POVs. When there's a change in narrator, it can take a bit to figure out who's talking because there's really no change in the tone. And a lot of it doesn't feel necessary.

Also the plot is super convoluted and there were quite a few times where I thought “what was the point of that?”