![]() ![]() ![]() The plot sounded dark and intricate but I felt like, whether it was a mixture of too many POV’s, I mean, as I read on, I found the characters hard to connect with, let alone I felt like they all got lost within the other as the story progressed, and I struggled with piecing together who was even who at some parts. Thank you to Pan Macmillian Australia for providing me with an Uncorrected Proof to read in exchange for an honest review! ![]() When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold.īut having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it’s worth–especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to the task. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. ![]() Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. ![]()
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