I liked this story. It's a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans and it's a companion to Lewis' previous work, Stitching Snow, so I was very excited to reading Spinning Starlight, you know besides the unique names these books have. 
 I liked that there was technology in this one, same as in Stitching Snow, as like in the first book, I found myself confused on some of the terminology, especially about the new world and races that were introduced. All the technology jargon was confusing and it seemed like I was the one with the checked genes instead because while I followed along with all the things that were happening, I sometimes had no clues what Liddi was doing in order to save the Khua and her brothers. The deal with the portal and circuits was actually easy to understand, but once it got to the specific parts about technology and piecing things together, it gets a little getting used to from there. That's not to say that it was impossible to read. It wasn't, it actually was very interesting and there was a lot of action involved that it didn't bother me that Liddi couldn't speak all throughout the story until the very end. At least she got the chance to get closer to Tiav without it being because of an ulterior motive. 
 it would have been nice to see a small cameo of Snow and Dane, but maybe there's hope in the future, even if they are in different universes! Maybe they will be able to travel between them or something... I hope the author decides to write another companion story to Stitching Snow and Spinning Starlight. I'm looking forward to it.