![]() ![]() ![]() Readers who love tales of enchantments and quests and magical dresses will find everything they love here. But, by and large, the book follows the expected patterns and hits the expected notes–just right for a fairy tale. The usual feminist messaging of the modern YA fantasy is present, of course, as Maia attempts to earn her place in a man’s profession. Spin the Dawn is a refreshing fairy tale retelling–refreshing in the sense that it sticks to the classic framework of a fairy tale, rather than trying to add too many twists or subversions in the hopes of becoming original. But she never reckoned on being assigned an impossible task or on falling in love with an enchanter. There she enters a competition to please the emperor’s newly betrothed and become the court tailor. ![]() But then emperor calls her father to court and Maia, seeing her chance, disguises herself as her brother and goes in his stead. Unfortunately, the position is not open to women. Maia Tamarin has longed dreamed of becoming the tailor to the emperor. ![]()
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