Fantasy page turner. Has many similar elements to Uprooted, with a setting based on fairy-tales and medieval central-eastern europe. This time, there's also elements based on medieval jewish life in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Pits the king of winter against dimly-remembered slavic "evil god". Overall, Spinning Silver seemed a little less focused than Uprooted, but also had a more expansive vision, incorporating more points of view, and depicting more facets of life in the medievalist fantasy world Novik created. Certain bits of Spinning Silver also seemed more pointedly aimed at the present moment than anything in Uprooted.