Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis

Posted 26 October, 2015 by Danny in Blog, Book Review, Danny, Danny's Book Review / 0 Comments

I do love a good retelling, a re-imagination of a beloved story. I do however must admit, I was not familiar with the story of “The Wild Swans” so I won’t have anything to compare it to.

A fantastic world, set in the future will of SciFi elements and some magical mystery!

What I loved most about the story was the setting. It’s set in the future (at least it feels like it) where technology is quite advances and the knowledge that the are more planets out there. The travel between the planets is through some magical portals and the knowledge about these portals is somehow lost and we are about to hunt down this lost knowledge together with Liddi, because her 8 brothers are caught and lost in these portals and she must free them.

A little more backstory and world building please..

It feels unfair of me to start right away with what I found lacking, but it’s the biggest complain I have with the story, which otherwise could have been pretty awesome! I found the whole world building and backstory to be lacking. I wished to know more about Liddie’s family, why the heck she has so many brothers and what makes them all so damn special, but also about the world and the whole galaxy. I felt lost a few times throughout the story and it also prevented me from fully connecting and getting lost in the story.

Also, what completely confused me where these portals – I would have wished we would have spent more time exploring their magic what they really are.

Liddi herself was a great, strong heroine and the romance sweet and cute

I did love Liddie a lot, I loved her fierceness when it came to rescue her family, her beloved brothers. And Tiav, a boy she meets on another planet was her perfect hero and counterpart. The romance cute and made up for the lack of world building.

Bewitched Rating

Bottom Line

Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis is a highly enjoyable story with a great heroine, but the lack of backstory and world building confused me a few times and prevented me from fully connecting. It still is a story I would recommend to everyone who likes an imaginative retelling