Spinning Silver

Good if you don't mind a ton of internal exposition

I loved Uprooted; by comparison, this book took too long to really get started and had WAY too many narrators. I honestly got a little angry when two more narrators were introduced halfway through the book. This might have been better as third omniscient.

It was pretty painful to read this as an ebook because I didn't realize how long it would be to get to the actual plot. I kept going because the reviews are so split down the middle and I was curious where I'd fall. I wish the first half had gone much faster, and I wish we didn't have to live in everyone's head, context switching every scene. At the end of the day, this was a pretty ambitious work, referencing tales like Rumplestiltskin, Persephone and Hades, Beauty and the Beast, and even Snow vs Summer. It's almost too much. But if you have time to savor your books, I can see how this would be an enjoyable read. Since I was reading this between non-leisure stuff, it was pretty stressful.