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Title	:	A Curse Dark as Gold
Author	:	Elizabeth C. Bunce
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

A Curse Dark as Gold

Elizabeth C. Bunce

Hardcover | Pages: 396 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 12169 Users | 1583 Reviews

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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.

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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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This 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

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 to

Wow. This book took my breath away! An original, multi-layered, exquisitely written retelling of the Rumplestiltzkin story. Compelling characters who wrestle with painful ethical dilemmas, make mistakes, and ultimately gain a personal understanding of choice and accountability, repentance, and forgiveness. One word of caution--it's a ghost story--don't read it alone late on a windy night!

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

With a heavy heart, I have to give this one a DNF at 40%. I don't know what was wrong that I just couldn't get into the book. I tried...so many times I wanted to stop but I kept giving another chance. I honestly thought with all of the 5 Stars that this would be the book for me...so, again I'll have chalk this one up to it was probably me and the mood I was in for what interests me.

Charlotte Miller and her sister Rosie have problems. Their father has just died, leaving their family mill in deep debt. Their long-lost uncle has arrived and is pushing them to sell. But their small community relies on the mill for its residents' livelihoods, and Charlotte isn't willing to give up her life and her friends' lives so easily. When Jack Spinner shows up and promises a way out, Charlotte makes a bargain with him to save the mill, but she gets far more than she bargained for and must

I was hoping for a bit more romance:/ The first half 5 amazing stars (view spoiler)[(through the proposal) (hide spoiler)], the second half of this book was definitely a clever twist on Rumple's tale, but the direction it took lost me (even if it made sense, I just tend to get bored once characters get together -the whole get married, have babies, focus on the baby and Rumple storyline -while basically throwing love interest out of picture- isn't really my kind of read, it's not that it was bad,