Adelice has been taught from a young age to be clumsy and artless so that she can hide her ability to weave. Now sixteen, all she has to do is make it through the mandatory testing that all sixteen-year-old girls in Arras do without giving herself away and she's free from life as a Spinster, away from the control of the Coventry. But one little slip gives her away, and she's swept off to work the weave of the world. Now living in the Coventry, she doesn't know who to trust, and it doesn't help that Maela, a power hungry Spinster, is determined to make sure she fails. Complicating things is Maela's attractive assistant, Erik, who may or may not be seducing her for Maela, and the equally attractive and potentially revolutionary head valet, Jost. But Adelice's ability to weave is stronger than even she knows, and with the help of the Creweler, Loricel, she learns the truth about the world around her.
Not going to lie, I totally picked this book up because Gennifer Albin got her MFA from the University of Missouri. As an alumna myself, I gotta support my fellow Tigers! But I'm glad I did. Despite being noticeably influenced by a lot of other properties (Hunger Games and [this feels like a spoiler, so you've been warned] a certain turn-of-the-century movie starring Keanu Reeves chief among them), it's still a fun world Albin is building, and is definitely different from a lot of other YA dystopias out there. It manages to twist and turn at a breakneck pace, which kept me wondering what would happen next. And with a cliffhanger ending, I'm definitely excited to see what happens in the next book.
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