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What happened?
That is my question. How did this book start out so strong and go downhill so fast? Why did Gennifier Albin make such a beautiful world and do nothing with it? I do not understand. I IS CONFUSED!!

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Let's start out with by far the best part of this book: the world building
So this book is set in an amazing and original world. There's a patriarchal society where men and women are segregated until they are married and women can only be secretaries. Unless your a Spinster. All girls take a test when the become 16 to see is they are Spinsters, which maintain and embellish this fabric of reality in this world (called Arras by the way). If you are a Spinster you get a life of freedom and privilege and you can never marry. All girls want to be Spinsters. The head Spinster is called the Creweler, and she is the only person who can actually make the fabric, all others just use what is already there. Of course all is controlled by The Guild of Twelve, and everybody else is being brainwashed.

I see what you did there Albin. Spinster originally meant "a women who spins", making thread and weaving. Crewel is a type of embroidery, I won't go into the details of that, and it also sounds a lot like "cruel" making the title much more interesting. And I lovelovelove the cover. (not the new ones)

I think it would make more sense if the titles "Creweler" and "Spinster" were switched. The spinsters cannot actually make the fabric, the just embellish it, so the should be the Crewelers. While the Creweler makes the fabric, so she should be the "Spinster". But I was willing to overlook this fact so I could enjoy an awesome book.

Not.

That is where the good things end. It quickly becomes boring and cliché: there's mean bitchy girls, a love triangle, most of the book is fairly uninteresting, I predicted a lot of it. The ending was a mess, and probably the worst part is that MC could tell the two love interests were brothers because of the way they kissed.
Yes that actually happened, it was ridiculous.

I assumed this was fantasy/dystopian which would have made this book really stand out, but it was actually scifi, which of convoluted and nonsensical. Much like Nobody, if the "powers" would just be magic it would actually be more strait forward (magic rarely is) and a helluvalot less annoying.