Reading the extra material at the end of this novel revealed Ms. Turner's thought process. I could see a heavy Greek mythology influence, but there were unique elements about the pantheon and the story-telling that showed the author's specific vision. There are also aspects that surprised me, in that the gods actually play a real role in this story. I liked how the fantasy elements didn't dominate, but the focus is Gen's character and his quest to steal something that has the potential to affect three kingdoms in this novel.
There was an interesting twist towards the end that I was not expecting at all, and I always give my respect to an author who can do that, and surprise me. I'm not a jaded reader, by any means, but I read a lot, and I've seen a lot of common plot devices; so a writer who can throw me a curve ball is always appreciated. I have to say that this Newbury Award Winner did impress me.
It's one of those stories that doesn't try to go elaborate, but has a richness that won me over as a reader all the same. Fortunately, this is part of a series, so I can look forward to more adventures in this interesting world. View all 13 comments. Dec 31, Jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: middle-grade , fantasy , all-timefavorites , award-winners.
Brilliant and amazing, but four out of five stars because this, in my opinion, is just setting up the truly world-shaking events of the next two books. Edited on rereading in FOUR stars?
Girl, what was wrong with you? Now that I know the twists, I was laughing in sheer delight throughout this. I don't know what was going on the first time I read this, but now I could truly appreciate how clever Gen is, and how this all fitted together so perfectly.
Jan 04, Emily Books with Emily Fox rated it liked it. This book seemed promising but I ended up a bit underwhelmed. I'm still planning on continuing the series since it apparently gets better! Shelves: ya , buddy-read , fantastic-fantasy. Buddy read with some friends at Buddies Books and Baubles I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks. Well I found that to be true and false at the same time.
It is true the second half of this book is much more interesting Buddy read with some friends at Buddies Books and Baubles I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. It is true the second half of this book is much more interesting, there is more going on action wise and the last pages just fly by. The only reason parts of it felt a little long are the backstories to the gods feathered in a little like info-dumping.
They are interesting lore stories but it is unclear how they fit into the book until later and almost felt like filler while I was reading them. He is a lot of fun to read as he is antagonizing his traveling companions. While we ate, I picked at the magus. I liked to watch him lose his temper and then regain it when he remembered that I was supposed to be beneath his contempt. Overall a really quick fun read that had action, mystery, betrayal and a few unexpected surprises that made it all the more interesting to read.
View all 7 comments. Mar 13, Jean rated it it was ok. A thief sprung from jail to help a Magnus steal an ancient treasure, warring kingdoms, political intrigue, sword fights, narrow escapes,a mythology invented especially for this fictional place, and a quest--everything, it would seem, to keep me reading.
So I am wondering why I so disliked this book that I had to force myself to keep reading to the end. I think I hit upon the answer spoken by one of Turner's characters near the last weary lap of the book: "Oh, fine," I told him I didn't care much about anything The characters never matter to me.
Gen, the thief, is so arrogant and obnoxious in playing his role that I could really care less about whether he succeeds. And the other characters are never really fleshed out enough for them to matter to me either. By the end of the book when the identity of the thief is finally revealed I began to have moments of interest, but not enough to be anxious to read the sequels. View all 4 comments. This is a very high end 3 star rating. Like the Gucci of 3 stars. This book laid out such an interesting foundation to the story and I know it can only get better from here.
View 2 comments. I am very intrigued by this series now. Feb 22, Natalie Monroe rated it it was ok Shelves: dragged-on-too-much , bad-beginning-loved-the-rest , when-sparks-don-t-fly , the-earth-is-flat.
I started this in the cold winter of and finished it in the harsh political climate of Trump and Brexit in February Everyone says the sequels are superb, which is the only reason I pushed on. But boy, was it tedious. Despite all the footwork though, I don't have a good handle on this fictional world or its culture. Here's to The Queen of Attolia stepping up its game. Overall coming out of this I do feel it was a positive experience hence a three star rather than two, but there was some close calls.
I will continue to keep reading stories about thieves and heists until the d this is one of those books where I liked it, and then I didn't like it, and then I was gonna dnf it, and then I liked it again, and then I was bored again, and then all of a sudden I loved it Essentially, a really big rollercoaster of emotions.
On the surface this is a pretty basic thief story - We follow Gen, a notorious thief taken out of jail and charged by the king of Sunis to find an ancient stone. Whoever possesses the stone gains rightful leadership of the country called Eddis.
So the beginning part of this book is really boring. The first half follows Gen, the Magus who pulls him from prison and three soldiers as they travel to the fabled location of the stone. Literally nothing happens in this section and I considered dnf'ing the book. The characters didn't really.. Often their actions and behaviours contradicted earlier behaviour and it was hard to get an understanding of their personalities.
The three soliders were all very one dimensional to me and hard to tell apart. One thing I DID appreciate was the unreliable narrator I love unreliable narrators and it was used really well in the second section.
This book definitely picks up in the second half. There is significantly more action and the politics and worldbuilding introduced through section one starts to come into play. In this section, Megan Whaler Turner turns your expectations on their head and if you liked the ending of The Fifth Season I think you'd like this book too it's not the same thing, but it's got a similar vibe And the Earth had no name.
The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods. Definitely the highlight of this book was the politics introduced and how this is going to play out in the next books. I liked the discussions around class, social structure and war here.
There is a lot of discussion about culture and immigration, and the perception that lower class, uneducated people are inherently less valuable than upper class educated people. The thematic work is, I think, the greatest strength of this book.
And Turner has tied it into the general politics and worldbuilding in such a way I know it's going to keep coming up, and I'm really happy about that. This reads like a giant prologue but I think it's going in a great direction. Even though I truly disliked the first bit I truly enjoyed the final part. I would love to see the characters get fleshed out some more, but if that happened, and the political intrigue keeps on this trajectory, I think this could be a series I really enjoy.
View all 6 comments. I'm giving up on this one. It's not BAD, just To me, anyway. I found the main character obnoxious and all the other characters underdeveloped and uninteresting, and over half way through the book, nothing's really happened--they've started their journey, and then traveled, and traveled, and traveled, and traveled, and traveled, and I've heard really good things about this series, and maybe at some point in the future I'll give it another try.
But I I'm giving up on this one. But I have too many other books that look far more exciting than this one has been, so I'm moving on to one of them. View all 5 comments. Jul 18, TheBookSmugglers rated it it was amazing. Full Review Link It is safe to say that I spend most of my free time reading.
I read three to four books every week, sometimes more. I am very careful with what I choose to read which means that most of the books I read, I end up enjoying at least to some degree. But it is rare, extremely rare, to read a book that falls in that category of Books for Life.
You know the ones: those that take over your heart and your mind, that even when you are reading you know that you are experiencing something u Full Review Link It is safe to say that I spend most of my free time reading. You know the ones: those that take over your heart and your mind, that even when you are reading you know that you are experiencing something unique, a connection with a story and its characters that only serial readers can understand ; those that you know will remain with you, forever.
This series came under my radar only recently when Angie from Angieville started to blog about the books with not a little amount of excitement. From then on, I started to see more and more people talking about them with such fervor that I thought I should give them a try.
I am totally, irrevocably, head over heels in love with this series. I knew I would have to review these books eventually, I had hoped to do so during this YA Month but I also realised that I had a decision to make: I could either review each book in the series separately or I could review the series as whole. The former would naturally lead to spoilers being revealed and since these books cannot, should not be spoiled, I opted for the latter by writing an overall review of the series, spoiler free.
This is what I am trying to do here — although I am fully aware that so far, I only managed to basically behave like a fan-girl. But it cannot be helped. I now completely understand the fervor, the excitement that this series inspire. As I was reading the books, as the pages were being turned I had only one thought in mind: this is why I read. THIS is why I read. And it all comes down to one word: Eugenides.
Gen, Eugenides is a thief. He boasts that he can steal anything. This is how the whole thing opens, in The Thief and we are told about this expedition in search of the Gift, by Gen himself, a humorous narrator of this dashing adventure across the neighbouring countries of Sounis, Eddis and Attolia. This person, this ragamuffin, lazy, starved boy — can he really steal anything? But you see, Gen is extremely clever, a fact which the reader and his companions in the first adventure, come to slowly realise.
Close to the end of that book, we learn something that is crucial to the entire series — that Gen is actually cleverer than anyone else. And there is something else too, something that makes him important. Then book 2 starts, and shock of the shocks.
Because this is a different book. It is still the same story but progress has been made. Because now, the destiny of countries is at stake, war is brewing in the horizon between Attolia, Eddis and Sounis.
This is a more sophisticated book, it has political discussion , political intrigue, it discusses the role that the Gods play in the fate of men and nations.
In the beginning of the series, Gen is a boy. A cocky, impetuous, adventurous, conniving boy. When book 2 starts, something terrible happens did I say shock of the shocks before?
Well, this is even more shocking that shapes the man Eugenides becomes. A man who has now to steal more than a simple object: he is tasked to steal a man, a woman and peace.
The way he does it, takes us back to more twists like in the first book. And we, once again, are surprised by how clever Eugenides is. Even if we expect it by now. Then book 3 starts. Once again, a shock. The book is entirely from the point of view of a character we never saw before. But no one else does. We sit back and wait for the coin to drop for everybody else as it has dropped for us in books 1 and 2. This is about pay-off, about Eugenides stealing respect and a kingdom. And what a story this is.
This is a series of books that have deep meanings, hidden clues throughout the story. And speaking of love: there is also romance in these books. It starts towards the middle of book 2 and it takes centre stage in book 3. But not in it a blatant way: the romance is subtle, almost private especially in book 3 and I am not exaggerating when I say it is the most amazing romance I have read of late.
It is unexpected and it is unusual. For starters, Eugenides is shorter and younger than the person he loves. But she is everything he ever wanted and he is everything she ever needed. Because of that, their dynamic is simply awesome and there is no other word for it. And what Eugenides is to his lady is aw-worthy at the same time that it is powerful. This is good stuff, plain and simple. To sum up: I was lost in the world of Attolia and Eddis and I did not want to get away from it.
If you like unreliable narrators, cons, plot twists, political intrigue, character development, mythology, stories within stories, strong female characters and heart-warming romance and above all, a male protagonist that is all kinds of awesome, you should look no further than this series.
It is not a perfect series by any means — there is change in pacing from one book to another, and the first book is clearly for a younger audience than the other two books. This is why, in my opinion, they should be read as a collection of books and not individually. I still love them though, flaws and all. At the end of book three, Eugenides has stolen: a gift; a man; a woman; peace; a kindgom.
He has also stolen my heart. The Thief deserves more stars than I am giving it. This task is basically the road to his freedom. So what choice does he have but to take the offer? Our protagonist, Gen, is so full of wits. I found his personalty to be the best part of the story. From his sarcastic comments to his brood The Thief deserves more stars than I am giving it.
From his sarcastic comments to his broody manner, everything about him was entertaining. So why exactly did I not give it a higher rating? Well… I found the writing to be too descriptive. Yes…there is such a thing. I love when books are through in telling a story, but there is a thing as too much.
Her writing displays an epic journey to success, showcasing character development as well as plot twists and light suspense. I was on par with predicting the plot twist. I think anyone can figure it out if you really pay attention.
This book is perfect for fantasy lovers. I will say however, this book sides with more classic and traditional fantasy. It is very slow paced, especially the first half, but this is the kind of series where the first book is just setting up for the second one, which I heard is far more superior in terms of story telling, writing, and character development.
Jun 15, Klaus rated it it was ok Shelves: fantasy. German version below I like reading massively long, intricately built books. With those, I'm willing to read some pages where nothing happens and neither the story nor the characters evolve.
However, this isn't a long book, but a very short one. Not even pages in total - and yet, for pages, nothing at all happens. Oh sure, we get to know the characters, and some sort of a rather disappointing road movie of a quest, but nothing happens.
Instead, the protagonist is, to say it with Sandor Clegane, whinging. Constantly complaining. Being an insufferable idiot. And then, after the middle of the book, suddenly all of the action comes. From then on, everything's fast-paced, full of fights and flights and surprising revelations that come out of nowhere - so much out of nowhere, that they're not believable.
Gen's whole character is changed from one moment to the next, and that's just as unbelievable as the rest of it. For example, if someone hits you with a whip, you won't become their friend. Our library is the largest of these which literally have hundreds of thousands of different products represented. You will also see that there are specific sites suitable for different types or categories of related products, brands or niches The Thief eBook PDF. So depending on what exactly you are looking for, you will be able to choose e-books according to your needs.
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