Gold Spun
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
If Nor can’t spin gold, she can always spin lies.
When seventeen-year-old Nor rescues a captured faerie in the woods, he gifts her with a magical golden thread she can use to summon him for a favor. Instead, Nor uses it for a con—to convince villagers to buy straw that can be transformed into gold. Her trick works a little too well, attracting the suspicion of Prince Casper, who hates nobody more than a liar. Intent on punishing Nor, he demands that she spin a room of straw into gold and as her reward, he will marry her. Should she refuse or fail, the consequences will be dire. Desperate for help, Nor summons the faerie’s aid, launching a complicated dance as she must navigate between her growing feelings for both the prince and faerie boy and who she herself wishes to become.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Familiar fantasy film and bestseller clichés jumble together as this whirlwind YA reimagining of "Rapunzel" sticks with surface-level treatments of class and romance. War orphan–turned–con artist Elenora Molnár, 17, supports her three brothers via theft and petty scams. When she rescues stunningly beautiful faerie Pel from bounty hunters and learns that his blood magic can transmute wool into gold, Nor launches her next con: "mystical straw" that spins into gold. She's quickly caught by 19-year-old heir to the throne, Prince Casper, who makes a bargain: if she can spin gold to fund his fay war, he will marry her; if not, exile. When she and Pel unexpectedly deliver, Nor is swept into petty court politics and the chance to be a "queen of the people" while war brews with the fay. But Pel, Casper, and Nor's unwitting love triangle and her own lies threaten to undo everything. June's debut strings together quantities of tropes—some with misogynist overtones—that never quite cohere into a focused narrative, resulting in material that seasoned YA readers will find outmoded. Ages 13–up.
