Elizabeth Bunce’s A Curse Dark As Gold is a retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin myth set in an England-like world on the cusp of an Industrial Revolution, and it’s a wonderful book. The story centers round the village of Shearing and the millhouse of Stirwaters where Charlotte and Rosie Miller have bee...
An interesting re-imagining of the classic fairytale "Rumpelstiltskin". The author did a great job with the historical setting, and making the mill town come alive.
Attempt number one was a DNF, I'm having a very, very hard time with Charolotte's close-minded pragmatism. It's not unrealistic, it's just exhausting to read.
I love all the fairy-tale retellings that are being released these days and A Curse Dark as Gold is one of the best I have come across yet. Bunce has taken on a retelling of the Rumplestiltskin tale. As she points out, it's a tale about the power of names, and yet the heroine is never given one (she...
Well there was enough good stuff in here that I will keep an eye out for more by the same author. This author has a gift for description, she often conjured an image of a place or person without bogging down in so much detail that it pulled you out of the action. The characters were interesting an...
The Possum is reading this for her school book club, so I decided to pick it up and read along with them. This throws all my efforts at order right out the window.***I went a teensy bit beyond the page 135 stopping point for this week, because it was the book I had with me. But then I stopped, and...
This felt like a slow start, but it could have been me. I really enjoyed it once I got into it a bit. Nice new take on the Rumpelstiltskin story. You may also like "Straw into Gold" for another completely different approach.
A compelling version of Rumpelstiltskin, with a strong heroine at its center. Spookier than I thought it'd be--had me leery of shadows. One of those books I stayed up half the night finishing because I couldn't bear the suspense. A solid addition to the fairytale-retelling canon.
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