Elizabeth C. Bunce's A Curse Dark as Gold takes on the Rumpelstiltskin tale in a new way.
Charlotte, our heroine and eldest of two recently orphaned girls, inherits a mill that may be cursed. but she scoffs at the curse, at the idea of the curse, and tries to carry on with determination and hard work.
Bunce's characters are well developed, but some of them, quite often Charlotte, do things that made me want to reach in and strangle them. There's only so many times weird and bizarre things can happen and a character can ignore them.
But the book isn't bad. Rumpelstiltskin is perhaps my favorite fairytale, if only for the many opportunities to fracture it so thoroughly. The Rumpelstiltskin character is presented not without compassion, and it's not Charlotte's firstborn he's asking for. And Charlotte's love interest (husband) is not a stupid, greedy king.
Good job, Bunce, it was a fun read.
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