Elizabeth C. Bunce
Hardcover | Pages: 396 pages Rating: 3.58 | 12169 Users | 1583 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Curse Dark as Gold |
| ISBN: | 0439895766 (ISBN13: 9780439895767) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/curse-dark-gold#cart/cleanup |
| Literary Awards: | William C. Morris YA Debut Award (2009), Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Senior Division (2011), Arkansas Teen Book Award (2009), Cybils Award (2008), Volunteer State Book Award Nominee (2011) |
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Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family's woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father's death, the bad luck piles up: departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting proposition: He can turn straw into gold thread, for the small price of her mother's ring. As Charlotte is drawn deeper into her bargains with Spinner-and a romance with the local banker-she must unravel the truth of the curse on the mill and save the community she's always called home.Mention Out Of Books A Curse Dark as Gold
| Title | : | A Curse Dark as Gold |
| Author | : | Elizabeth C. Bunce |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 396 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2008 by Arthur A. Levine Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Historical. Historical Fiction. Retellings. Fiction |
Rating Out Of Books A Curse Dark as Gold
Ratings: 3.58 From 12169 Users | 1583 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books A Curse Dark as Gold
If there is one word that I would use to sum up this book it's intricate. I was floored to find out that this was the author's debut novel. Ms. Bunce is up there with the best veterans of the fantasy genre.Charlotte Miller knows her share of hardships. Her mother and baby brother died, and the book starts with the reader witnessing Charlotte and her sister burying their father. Too bad for Charlotte that this is not the last she is going to see of bad luck. With her father gone she has toThis has to be the most enjoyable book I've read all year. I have to admit that in the beginning, I was skeptical about all of the praise I'd seen about this book. While I love fairy tale retellings, Rumplestiltskin isn't exactly one of my favorite fairy stories. But this loose retelling, set at the beginning of the industrial revolution, is pretty damn entertaining.I think a lot of that has to do with the author's style. The story just kind of creeps up on you as you read it. The atmosphere is
This is a good book - but I didn't enjoy reading it.Good writing, good dialogue, tightly woven plot, good research - BUT for 90% of the book neither the reader nor the narrator know what's going on, which is 1) incredibly frustrating and 2) leads to a big info dump at the end.The time and place is unspecified - which being a fairy tale, should be ok, but here I was slightly maddened that the writer tried to put such a real world context to it, especially all the information about the early
If you, like me, are hard-pressed to find truly chilling gothic fiction, then A Curse Dark as Gold is not one to pass up. As a re-telling of Rumplestiltskin, this novel is haunting, poetic, and most importantly whole. Out of all the fairy tales in the world, Rumplestiltskin is easily my least favorite. After all, who really wants to read the story of a nameless heroine who later betrays the only character who helps her and winds up marrying the man who threatened to ruin her? It simply doesnt
Every possible fairytale is eventually hunted down and stripped of its elements for middle grade and YA novel reinterpretation. This is not an unusual thing. For centuries humans have been fascinated with such tales, telling them, retelling them, and changing them to suit current needs. Nowandays, when contemporary authors take a tale it becomes the skeleton for a larger story to come. Cinderella becomes Donna Jo Napolis Bound. East of the Sun, West of the Moon becomes Sun and Moon Ice and Snow
Not a bad book, really, just...a book that had some aspects to it that kept me from enjoying it enough to give it more stars. A pet peeve of mine in fiction is when a protagonist constantly makes the wrong decision in situations that might have brought about a sooner resolution. Specifically, when other characters who want to (and can) help ask her what's wrong, and she keeps her secret bottled up, dealing with the problems on her own. This especially seems ridiculous when the character keeps
I really wanted to love A Curse as Dark as Gold. A historical fantasy set in a mill during the Industrial Revolution - what a perfect setting for a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. Unfortunately, it was really hard work to get through this and I skimmed a lot. The writing is tedious, the details of running the mill too thorough and dry. Plus, I was expecting something a bit more industrial out of the setting with a more Dickensian or Gaskellian feel - a mill in a place like Manchester, not in a
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