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It's Marissa Meyer's new book. Of course I read it.
Rating: 3/5
Started: 15 November
Finished: 16 November
Summary:
Serilda is a storyteller. She loves to tell tales of magic and kingdoms and love. But she also can't help but tell stories about the little things. One night, she saves two fairies from the violent hunt of the Erlking by spinning the story that she can spin straw into gold. A month later, the Erlking comes for her, locks her in a room of a ghost castle, and commands her to spin a pile of straw into gold. She, of course, cannot. But a mysterious boy agrees to help her, for a price. As Serilda tries to unravel the mystery of the castle and the Erlking, she begins to slowly fall for the boy who is helping her. But everything has a price, and everything depends on what Serilda is willing to pay.
In this dark and rich Rumplestiltskin retelling set in medieval Germany, bargains are binding, people are not always what they seem, and stories are everything.
Thoughts:
This was super good except for one thing. I liked the darkness of it. There were good twists, as there always are with Meyer, and lots of interesting things happened. But there was no snark. No sunshine-dark character friend pairing—actually there were basically no friends at all in the whole book. There was no banter. Nothing made me laugh. That was one of the most brilliant aspects of the Lunar Chronicles, and I was sad for it to be missing here. I hope in the future Meyer will look for more friendships and sarcastic characters to write into her fairytales.