Kazi, 17 and a soldier, drinks a little ale with Jase, who's a bit older. Jase, brothers, and friends drink heavily after his father's death. A trader smokes a pipe. Parents need to know that Dance of Thieves is a spin-off of the Remnant Chronicles set in the same group of kingdoms. Like the other trilogy, this is a fantasy adventure heavy on the romance. Kazi, a year-old soldier, gets kidnapped with Jase, the leader of a city in the Remnant kingdoms, and sparks fly. There's plenty of kissing and groping, with talk of wanting to do more but not having protection.
Another couple has a brief tryst against a tree with only moaning mentioned. Besides the kidnapping, there are raids and brief battles with casualities and injuries. Sometimes it gets a little gory: Sometimes the language gets a little salty, but doesn't go beyond "bitch," "ass," and "bastard. Men who are probably in their early 20s drink to excess after the death of the patriarch. Kazi often returns to memories of her childhood, when her mother was taken away and she was forced to survive on the streets.
She comes a long way before the book even begins, training to be an elite soldier. She overcomes fears and prejudices from her past to connect with Jase and always keeps her mission as a soldier in mind. Add your rating See all 1 parent review. She believes that the family who runs the town, the Ballengers, are housing him in their stronghold. Just before they arrive, the Ballenger Patrei, or head of the family, dies suddenly, leaving his son Jase in charge. Kazi finds Jase on the streets of Hell's Mouth hungover from a night of grief-drinking with his friends and brothers.
After a less than cordial meeting -- a knife to the throat, clever threats -- Kazi chases Jase away from his friends and right into the arms of a band of slavers. They're both knocked out, captured, and dragged off on a wagon.
This was not how Kazi's mission was supposed to go at all. Luckily, after years as a street thief, Kazi has special skills she uses to dupe the slavers and escape. Now Kazi and Jase are chained together days from any town, forced to get along enough to survive. This Remnant Chronicles spin-off series gets off to a promising start with a strong female hero, dangerous travel adventures, and an absorbing romantic storyline.
Kazi, former street thief, now valued member of the queen's elite guard, is fun to root for when she encounters the proud Ballengers and navigates a tricky relationship with its new head of the family, Jase. There's plenty of tension as both Kazi and Jase guard their secrets from each other, but not well enough.
Though the romance sometimes threatens to take over entirely, the political intrigue in the town of Hell's Mouth will also hold readers' attention. It's hard to know who to watch out for: It's what makes Jase always suspicious -- even of Kazi, as he should be. In the end, her loyalties have to be to the queen. Families can talk about Jase and Kazi in Dance of Thieves. What makes them both thieves? Would they ever have understood each other if they hadn't been forced together? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
See how we rate. One day, a beautiful young woman comes to him for help in solving her sister's murder. Normally, he doesn't work on any cases larger than theft but the money that is offered is more than he can refuse. From the strange mutilation of the body, he determines that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. As the plague descends on London, he and Anna-Maria race to stop the murderer from striking again and, perhaps, even threatening the throne of England itself.
The Thief Taker 's scenery is lush. The customs, clothing, and food from are so different from what we have now. The reader is whisked away to a world that is the same in some ways human behavior and emotions and so different in other ways social structures and occupations.
I didn't even know what a thief taker was until I read this book. The story is an intricate mystery with the murders, possible witchcraft, and treason. I didn't see the ending coming at all. It could be that I don't read that many mysteries, but I thought that it was really well done. Another fascinating piece to this story are the plague victims.
The horrific conditions that the author describes, like bodies rotting in the streets and the Thames becoming clogged with corpses around London Bridge, actually took place. Because of these icky details, The Thief Taker occasionally veers towards the horror genre but never really crosses that line. I kept picturing the rotting plague victims as zombies. In some ways, they're similar. Contact with a plague victim could bring infection. Sometimes, the main character would come across a body that would appear dead, but wasn't dead.
At one point in the story, a character describes the plague victims who are wandering the streets in search of mercy as the "walking dead. Also, the societal breakdown that accompanied the plague was so quick. Every moment the characters were in the London streets was filled with tension. The reader didn't know if a plague victim was going to pop out of a quarantined house or if a thug was going to try to commit a robbery in a dark alley. I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads program. View all 3 comments. Oct 17, Kate Brown rated it did not like it.
Well, that's a few hours of my life I shall never get back. An unbelievable farrago, so badly researched that I found myself actually looking up things I knew were wrong just in case I was mistaken after all. The story itself is trivial - one potentially interesting idea, the debasement of the currency, is very lightly touched on at the end, and all the witchery seems to be abandoned without us ever knowing any more about it.
This may well be because there are more books to come. The 'secret sce Well, that's a few hours of my life I shall never get back. The 'secret scene' doesn't help much, and its Pinterest link doesn't work. The characters are inconsistently drawn, with no particular effort to pull together motives and habits from their past into a coherent whole, and no development in our knowledge of them or theirs of themselves.
Charlie just about stands up, I suppose though his occasionally selflessly tender heart isn't credibly embedded into his Artful Dodger background. But Maria is a cipher and the relationship between them is embarrassing. As for the other characters, Thomas and Teresa give absolutely no insight into why they behave as they do it's really not enough to hint at post traumatic stress disorder , and the glimpses of others, royal or common, are cartoonish.
But it's the history that really makes me cringe. Where shall I start? Tower Bridge or Regent Street? Her idea of 17thC London is bananas, not to put too fine a point on it. Actually, her idea of London at any period is bonkers, and I am stunned to find that she is apparently English and a journalist, which would suggest that she should know London.
She has clearly no idea at all what the City of London actually is, or was. Westminster is another discrete city, a Royal one, no Mayor here. The wards and parishes between the two and out towards the suburbs were all under varying jurisdictions. The autor continually confuses all of these. The two major journeys that Charlie and Maria take are nonsensical - from Covent Garden, where the tavern is supposed to be, to Holborn, where I think Maria is supposed to live though there is some confusion, could not have included Cockspur Street which is the other side of St Martin in the Fields.
They might have gone via Cock Lane, but how could an author do that and simply witter on about Charterhouse when the reeking mess of Smithfield and the ancient priory of St Bartholomew are right in your way? And what Londoner, nay, what intelligent human being with access to Google Maps, could put Wapping several hours ride from Stratford?
And C Quinn has worked at The Times? Here are a few really terrible howlers of the dozens I've bookmarked. Life is too short to mention them all: There was no Foundling Hospital in pre-Fire London. There were two City Orphanages and they weren't run by nuns. The crown stamped on them shows your crime. Nor was there a regular supply to the Navy until Pepys started to reorganise it. Nor, in fact, were there naval uniforms as such at the time. Plague security was certainly stepping up, thought Charlie. Shaftesbury of Shaftesbury Avenue lived in the 19thC. The place I think she means would have been deep in the slum of St Giles in the Fields, oddly enough where the first Plague cases were identified in Somewhere to avoid, erm, like the plague.
Louise de Keroualle was not the King's Mistress until after She had no brother George. Tower Bridge was built in the late 19thC. The development of townhouses in Mayfair came in the 's. Later she is supposed to live in Regent Street, which is not Mayfair, is of course named after the Prince Regent, and was laid out in Bear baiting was actually suppressed during the Plague but in any case the bear-gardens were on the South Bank.
Later on they talk of Regents Park, which again was named for the Prince Regent and was much later. He commuted once a week into the City by rowboat through the marshlands at Deptford Creek. Greenwich harboured a Royal Palace and is quite a grand little place. Deptford was and is marshy, but was also the home of enormous Royal Dockyards. It's perhaps an hour's rowing upriver to the Tower past Wapping, by the way. Why would a boatman commute once a week such a short distance? She is your wife? The names of the very few actresses performing in the 's are very well known and there is neither any Lynette nor would anyone have spoken of her like that.
She would have been 'Mistress Tuesday' or whatever her own name was.
Interestingly, there's not a single hit on Google for this idiotic word buboils. What was the editor thinking of when he or she passed this book fit for publication? I checked all these points in half-an-hour on Wikipedia, hardly a PhD research project. I can't think that C S Quinn has ever done any research at all, let alone historical. View all 19 comments.
Everyone, Historical Fiction Fans. You should be really glad you never will have to worry too much about the bubonic plague, seriously!. After reading this wonderful book of exceptional storytelling I am! This for me, is storytelling at it's finest, thrown in some history and add a dash of adventure and mystery and you are on to a winner. So what's the book about? When a girl is gruesomely murdered, thief taker Charlie Tu You should be really glad you never will have to worry too much about the bubonic plague, seriously!. I loved this book, not usually a massive fan of books with a historical theme I went for it anyway.
It did not disappoint me. Before I get into my thoughts to share with you, indulge me for a moment in a brief and true history lesson to set the scene. The Great Plague of London in was the last in a long series of plague epidemics that first began in London in June Giles through rat-infested alleys to the crowded and squalid parishes of Whitechapel and Stepney on its way to the walled City of London.
By September , the death rate had reached 8, per week. Let that sink in. So, this book is set in when the Great Plague of London was at it's peak. The men that everyone seeks out when a household member is suspecting to be ill with the plague were called the Plague Doctors. After reading this book I quickly concurred that in the world C. Quinn created these people didn't come with much of a bedside manner, but how the imagination runs riot with imagery! Nor very pleasant visitors, no indeed.
Charlie summoned the image of a plague doctor to mind. In their dark capes, ghoulish masks and crystal eye-glasses they frightened adults as well as children. The long metal beaks were stuffed with camphor and vinegar to protect the wearer from the foul air, lending the doctors an acrid stench. And their treatments almost always involved blood-letting and lancing of plague buboils. Certainly he crossed over the road if he saw one. This book has wonderfully descriptive words all the way through it, I really felt transported back to this dreadful and dangerous time in history and was caught up in the whole story.
Pure escapism at it's finest. Charlie is a thief-taker, hired to find the thieves that stole from those who had the money to pay him his fees. But he gets asked an unusual request from a pretty young woman to please help find who killed her sister in her bed whilst she was I'll.
From that very moment, against all instinct and judgement, Charlie is really in the thick of it. The story is interwoven with a few different stories at the same time, seamlessly done. Each story line is really interesting and of course they all come together as they should at the end to complete the overall book.
Charlie is quick to realise that the murdered woman he saw was not killed by any ordinary person but that evil was abound in London. The signs were there. Pure evil, witchcraft indeed. The mystery is how he is connected to it all, around his neck he wears a key see the book cover and he knows not what it is for. It is from this that the rest of the story evolves as Charlie follows the steps of the murderer and the clues they leave behind.
Who is this person? Why are they killing the way they do? What is the message? What is the master plan? The story changes point of view between different characters such as the King, the Mayor of London, Charlie and most interestingly the person themselves that murdered in such a foul and evil way and has little intention of stopping. I found the characters fascinating and well written. Charlie comes across as bold, courageous and somewhat charming, raises as an orphan as a young boy he kind of pulls on the heart strings a bit, but he's so clever and so interesting to follow in this book.
By the end I was looking back on where I went with this character and think it was some very clever book writing. You will hopefully love this aspect of the book too. It's hard to share more without spoilers but I can say the book is extremely enjoyable, it has everything you want to escape with a good book, the plot is excellent, it has enough twists and turns that you can't work it all out for yourself.
Some of the imagery conjured up around the ugliness of being riddled with the plague might put you off food for a while. Seriously nasty stuff that was! The book is also a lot of fun, a bit of a romp as we walk the streets with the beggars, the hungry, the prostitutes, the gamblers, the thief takers, the plague doctors, the watchmen and of course those cursed with the plague. It's history with well written interesting story around it, the historical base used as a base for the rest of the exciting journey.
It's not a slow read, nor does it hurtle along too quickly. I loved the ending and how it all came together, I had not predicted most of it so was surprised and delighted. I had moments of horror reading of the plague, the death pits with up to a thousand bodies thrown in, the sickness, the poverty and the sheer helplessness of the whole situation. A fascinating, entertaining, superbly written debut novel. Quinn got all the elements right in pulling this book together. I really enjoyed it and absorbed and hung on to every word. Recommended for anyone really, you don't have to be a fan of historical novels, it's a darn good read.
It's because this book keeps coming back to me days after reading it. It's been so memorable. Not a lot of books do that with me. I received a copy of this book thanks to the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. View all 11 comments. GeeVee, Pat, Susanna, and all other disease story lovers. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. View all 21 comments. This book was awarded to me by NetGalley. I enjoyed this historical fiction very much. The Plague doctor was totally frightening! Descriptions were spot on. Just the time period in London during the plague and what people would do had me on the edge of my seat and add the mystery involved here, it was a great suspense telling! A girl goes to a thief-taker to help solve the murder of her sister, the interaction between Charlie and Anne-Marie was superb.
All of the characters were well defined in t This book was awarded to me by NetGalley. All of the characters were well defined in their dealings with each other. It kept in line and in time very well. The witchcraft aspect in those days was worked in well. It was the last few chapters, the reveal, that was a bit disappointing. I liked the tension between Charlie and Marie as he told her he would call her - loved that bit and when they became soft toward each other was not what I wanted - ok when she was drunk though.
As high spirited as she was and what she said about her betrothed what happened to him anyway? I did not think she would fall for someone she clearly thought to be so much below her station even though he was a better person and saved her life - more than once - maybe if he had become rich at the end, she would have changed her mind - showing her colors again. And he could have put her off for that. The relationships at the last few chapters were a little confusing, the plague doctor, his wife, the mayor, and his assistant, and the King's guard.
Maybe I was not catching on to what I should have? I will not put in spoilers about what I did get, but it seemed a little muddled, or maybe it was in my head that was the muddle? I guess there were other things I was hoping for; things that were built up over the story seemed to get let go. Charlie's brother, what happened to him? The mystery of their mother was just plopped out there and not treated as I thought it would be. The trunk, where did it go? What else did it hold? Over-all I really did like this book, I was just hoping for some other information at the end.
Aug 24, Wanda rated it really liked it Shelves: Will start reading tomorrow, Saturday, 20 SEP I leafed through and found where the author thanks Philipa Gregory, an author I do not care for. I presented this question to my Dear Friend, Bettie: Bettie, will you please tell me something? This young lady thanks Philipa Gregory. Please tell me this book is nothing like Gregory's books; is it? I hope to the blue sky and beyond that this does not turn out to be a copycat Gregory book in style, fiddling with historical facts, or in any other manner.
Because, I am so very looking forward to reading and liking this book, I will be royally angry! And, having reached the end, I can say The Thief Taker is absolutely nothing like Gregory's books and I hope the author never again feels the need to drop names. You, Ms Quinn, are good enough to sail your own boat in your own name. This book left me breathless while travelling the plague-rotted streets of London with Charlie and Maria.
Thomas Malvern is a very bad man. I was afriad of him and the author's spot-on descriptions of his plague doctor outfit. I look forward to more adventures with Charlie with or without Maria. I won this book here and was also approved for a galley copy at Netgalley on the same day. I deeply appreciate the opportunity to read and review The Thief Taker. While I may not have written an over-long review containing a synopsis of the book others have already provided that , I hope this review demonstrates the excitement I felt while reading The Thief Taker.
Plus, as soon as I turned the last page, I turned to the first page and read it through a second time. View all 16 comments. Sep 18, Mike rated it did not like it Shelves: I don't mean to sound like an ass, but I simply cannot believe this author writes for her day job. The syntax is abrupt and choppy and She evidently has no idea how to work a comma. The dialogue between lower-class characters that doesn't contain contractions is enough to rip you right out of the story. This is appallingly amateurish.
I've read better fan fiction written by high school students! I read more than I probably should have; the blurb made the book sound What a disappointment! I read more than I probably should have; the blurb made the book sound like something right up my alley. Sadly, it never improved. Total waste of time. Sep 08, Ellen Gail rated it it was ok Shelves: Two sad, plague infested stars. The Thief Taker tells the story of plague infested London, and thief taker aka dude who will chase down thieves and stolen items for a fee Charlie Tuesday as he tracks down a vile murderer dressed like a plague doctor, mixing with witchcraft and political upheaval along the way.
I'm hardly an expert on 17th century British history, but the novel certainly seems well researched. There's a great amount of attention and care given to histor Two sad, plague infested stars. There's a great amount of attention and care given to historical detail. To a history dunce like me, it read as believable enough, but any history experts will likely disagree. I also liked the level of creepiness. The author doesn't shy away from horror, both plague-derived and man made. The story's biggest weakness is in the writing. Kamet, in short, gains a friend without knowing that's what he's doing, and it's lovely to watch him realize it over the course of the ending.
It's tempting to think that the story only gets interesting when Gen shows up, but I think this is entirely Kamet's story. Though Kamet's reaction to meeting Gen again is priceless. Yes, the Attolians seem to love him now, but only Kamet, with his vast experience of the kind of power wielded by truly ruthless men, recognizes in Gen a greatness that I think will have to carry him through the challenge the Mede presents.
In fact, I felt a little like Kamet in that moment, forced to reevaluate what I thought was going on. One of the other things MWT said was that her policy of not answering questions comes from her desire not to step on the excitement, wonder, and cleverness of her readers. If she comes out and says, for example, how old Gen is, then that's the end of the debate--the Author Has Spoken. And that's only the smallest of possible answers.
What she actually said was that year-old readers think he's 12 in The Thief , presumably , year-olds think he's 14, year-olds think he's 17, and year-old women think he's I did not get the chance to ask the question I was curious about, which is why knowing Gen's age would have a chilling effect on the discussion. Having been in a discussion group that was ruined by the presence of someone who spoke with the voice of the author--not even the author herself--I deeply appreciate this policy.
There are plenty of elements in this book that are up for debate, and I like the idea of the discussion even as there are some questions I'd like answered. That there are communities devoted to this kind of discussion is cheering. Even our Goodreads discussions fit that description. This is a series with so much scope for analysis and discussion, and that makes it brilliant. Having participated in some of those discussions, I have to say I no longer have any idea where the next book will go. There are plot elements that have to be addressed: Destroying the secret navy pushes both Attolia and all of Gen's satellite nations and the Mede closer to that point.
I don't believe that imminent threat can be maintained much longer without exhausting the reader; there's only so much scariness you can take before you get burned out. Gen's role as annux has to be addressed--what, exactly, does it mean to those three countries? And there are things I'd like to see in the story that aren't as crucial: I'd like to know who young Erondites is. I'd like to know what Costis does now that he's no longer in Attolia hide spoiler ].
I anticipate doing the same thing I did here, five or more years down the road--picking up book six with no preconceived notions. But next time, I will know better than to think I know what's going on just because it's deceptively simple. They're almost certainly going to re-release the others to match whatever the cover design gods at Greenwillow come up with. And now that we're at the end, I've got a spare copy of Thick as Thieves with no home.
Aug 06, Sherwood Smith added it Shelves: Actually I finished it the day I started it, but it's been too hot to write up a coherent reflection. And now that I'm sitting down to do that at six a. As it is, this is going to be a patchwork. So let me observe that readers could begin here, with a seemingly straightforward tale of a slave who has managed to com Actually I finished it the day I started it, but it's been too hot to write up a coherent reflection. So let me observe that readers could begin here, with a seemingly straightforward tale of a slave who has managed to come to terms with his life--to even take pride in it, and anticipate wielding power--who finds himself pitchforked into running away, with only a foreigner as guide.
The adventures of the two men makes up the bulk of the book, with occasional grace notes in poetry Kamet shares with his doltish foreigner, who is not doltish at all. But to really enjoy this book to its fullest, readers really ought to begin with the first in the series. The feel of this one reflected The Thief , timewise it engages very closely with Queen of Attolia and also points toward recognition of one figure , but one needs to have read King of Attolia to recognize another important character, and finally one needs to have read A Conspiracy of Kings to appreciate the.
The high-intensity emotions interlaced with humor is as bewitching as the detail evoking the world, which draws on, but does not map over, history and geography of the eastern end of the Mediterranean. You read them with that catch of breath, knowing that everyone you love is not necessarily safe. Most readers I talk about these books with place the stunning impact of that realization with view spoiler [Gen losing his hand in QUEEN hide spoiler ] but I put it at view spoiler [Pol's death hide spoiler ].
With The Thief , narrative trickery causes the reader to experience a paradigm shift. But with each succeeding book, one of the main characters sustains a profound paradigm shift, and the reader gets to watch it happen. Which, of course, leaves me longing for the next book. Went searching for information about this book and instead found this post: Although, I will try to write faster, I promise, I promise.
She ev Went searching for information about this book and instead found this post: She even mentions Goodreads! Apr 03, Shae McDaniel rated it really liked it Shelves: I still haven't quite figured out what to say about this, since I don't want to give any spoilers. Not Telling is a big deal to this fandom. Also, I have the hardest time talking about MWT books when they first come out. As enjoyable as they are in the reading, the true joy comes from rereading over and over and over again and catching things you missed the first five or six times.
That means any new Thief book will never be my favorite and allows for a more relaxed read, which is nice. For i I still haven't quite figured out what to say about this, since I don't want to give any spoilers. It was a mind-bending experience. So yeah, this book stands as 5 out of 5 in my affections, but that's why I love Megan Whalen Turner.
I trust her completely. I enjoy her books as I read them, knowing full well that that enjoyment and appreciation will only deepen and ripen in the years and rereads to come. Even though Thick as Thieves was positioned as a companion standalone, I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. I mean, it can be read wholly divorced from the rest of the series, but I derived the bulk of my enjoyment from tying it back to the other stories. For those wanting to know the vague shape of things, here's a bullet-point rundown of Thick as Thieves: He is my sensible and snarky son and I love him.
By my count, of those we have met before counting Kamet , eight appear on page and two are at least mentioned in passing. This is an insider fan nudge that will make certain people squeal. I know I did. There's a Thing that comes out of nowhere and it sucker-punched me in the middle of a Brooklyn laundromat, and I'm still distraught every time I think about it.
I think those who have had less time and less motivation by way of burning obsession to become accustomed to her twisty way of writing will be just as surprised as I was in the first four books. I was not in any way disappointed by having guessed things correctly. Instead, I feel unspeakably proud of myself for following along. It's a nice feeling. Of course, greedy little fan that I am, I'm already itching for another installment.
May 20, Hallie rated it it was amazing Shelves: It may be 17 years before I write a review of this book too, at the rate things are going. But two things now, the second behind serious spoiler. How did I not see that?? Granted, I was trying to deny the miscarriage had happened while reading, until it seemed we had all the evidence.
And this is not my own theory, but one I saw and am adopting. We will welcome her when she comes again. Seriously, has there been one single meaningless character or reference introduced in these books? Okay, I can't quite stop. It SO is that, isn't it? Almost feels in ways as if it's the FIRST half which would only make sense read second - there are so many wonderful, fabulous callbacks to KoA.
Cleverer people placed it as just before his capture in QoA, because he was in Attolia to get information on the Medes hence befriending Kamet! Plus, it sounds like Gen, even without the scroll by Enoclitus. He's Gen through and through, isn't he? Biting the cook - twice. Costis didn't read as really Costis -like to me mostly, though bits and pieces started adding up.
I didn't love the style of the poems Immakuk and Ennikar , although they were fit in well to the story. I did love view spoiler [their appearances as wine-merchant and camel-er, driver? In King of Attolia Gen gets really upset at the story Phresine tells him, and I can't quite figure out why. We now know Gen has heard some of the Immakuk and Ennikar poems from Kamet, and also that he's already started hatching his plan to send Costis to steal Kamet out of the Empire by the time Phresine tells the story.
He can foresee that Costis is the man for the job, and part of that is his likely attitude towards slavery, because of his loyalty to Aris, who's okloi. He's got to know already that he is going to earn Costis's loyalty too, just as Costis eventually earns Kamet's. That's not a coincidental likeness, is it? View all 28 comments. Apr 03, Amy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Intensely satisfying and completely worth the wait. I love the characters, the twists Pre-Review This is officially a thing. Jul 26, S. Megan Whalen Turner is such a genius and I would hate her for it if I didn't adore her.
Each book in the Queen's Thief series has successfully tried out a different genre and category, and her ability to plant twists that make me gasp with delight makes me simultaneously envious and elated. Thick as Thieves is the buddy comedy I didn't know was possible to have in this world. Immakuk and Ennikar 5EVA! Apr 14, Bitsy Anderson marked it as to-read. I MUST have this book within my possession as soon as possible. I shall be one of the few at the midnight opening at my local bookstore.
Even though my city is lame and probably will not have a party. I shall wait by the front doors until they open first thing in the morning. It shall be done. Jan 21, Phee rated it liked it Shelves: This one follows Kamet, a slave in Mede and his journey with a character we have met before. I liked all the hints and they made me smile even though I guessed who it was.
This was quite a bit different from previous instalments. It had more of the story telling elements that I love so much. Also very little Eugenides which makes me terribly sad because I am completely in love with him. He was mentioned a fair bit and appeared in the flesh at the end of the book. But he is really what makes this series what it is and to not have him as a main character is disappointing to say the least.
I could happily read 10 books just about Eugenides.
Nonetheless, the story itself was enjoyable enough and I did like the characters involved in this book. I just want more from my whining thief. As I said earlier I do hope for more books in the future, especially if the are about Gen. May 18, R. I was feeling so smugly pleased with myself for having figured out one of the book's twists before the reveal and then No spoilers here beyond what you can find in the flap copy, just to say that Kamet is a great character, as I thought he would be -- distinct from all the other narrators in the series so far, with his own unique strengths and weaknesses and personality traits, but sympathetic and likeable even when the reader knows he's prejudiced or misinformed or just plain flat-out wrong.
And his partnership with his Attolian accomplice is also well drawn and compelling, especially how it's intertwined and paralleled with the heroic myths Kamet recites for him along the way. As for the tidbits we get about the characters we already know and love from the other books I won't spoil those either, but they too are powerful and moving. And as always, I'm left both wanting more and itching to reread the whole series over again looking for those tiny, delicately scattered clues that this book will surely make obvious in retrospect.
Bravo once again, MWT. Oct 19, Lisa rated it really liked it Shelves: Oh god, I don't even know how to review this without spoiling but it's worth the long wait. That being said, I wouldn't have love it if I hadn't done a reread marathon and found a new appreciation for The Thief.
The plot solely revolved around a "road trip" of a sort, in the same vein of Thief. I love his character development in this. Spoilery gushing under the cut: Oh my god when he showed up in the first? Sue reading this series makes me realize I haven't visited this world for a while ANYWAY it's been 84 years and we still don't have the fifth book what is this tragedy this is starting to feel like the Jimmy book ffs update: Aug 20, Leah Cossette rated it really liked it Shelves: Waiting for this book to come out: I've been waiting so long.
After ACoK I thought it was over, but then, to find out there are two more And they're not out yet We have a cover, folks, we have a title. Untitled project now has title 2 47 Oct 07, About Megan Whalen Turner. Megan Whalen Turner is the author of short stories and novels for children, teenagers and adults. Other books in the series. The Queen's Thief 6 books. Books by Megan Whalen Turner. Trivia About Thick as Thieves No trivia or quizzes yet.
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