I’m kind of surprised by how much I like this book. There’s a lot of things that are good - but only just - about this book: good characters, good world building, good dialogue. With few exceptions, I didn’t find too much of that memorable or distinctive, but I never found that I was reading the book in spite of any of that either. I would find myself getting pulled into the plot like a leaf in a tornado, and completely losing myself in the book. It had me worried for a few pages that it was going to end on a sour note but then it really turned itself around and I’m looking forward to the next book.

ALSO Night Spinner gets EXTRA BONUS IMAGINARY POINTS for being... I don’t know what the right phrase is here. The MC has a disability but the book never handicaps her, if that makes sense. It never expects less of her for her disability. Only she expects less of herself for it and that changes as she goes through the book (and not because the disability magically disappears). So props for being the book I can point to next time someone asks me how fantasy books are supposed to handle disabilities.