The School Library Journal's Top 100 Children's Novels #12
Title: The Thief (Book 1 in The Queen's Thief Series)
Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Genre: Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction
Ages: Supposedly it's for ages 9-12, but I recommend it more for the 12 year olds and up, unless you have a really mature and clever 9 year-old
The Recipe: Set in fictional, Byzantine/Greek-like nations, The Thief is a first-person narrative of Gen, a young thief who finds himself dragged out of prison to go on a secret mission for the King of Sounis' Magis. What he's asked to retrieve is impossible to find and no one has yet succeeded alive. This book is the first in an unfinished saga about three neighboring nations (Sounis, Eddis, and Attolia) and their key-players.
The Frosting and Sprinkles: These books are my new obsession (just wait until I review the next one, which is my favorite!). Seriously, I love, love, love these books.
The characters are phenomenal. Good or bad, you cannot help but love them all and empathize with them in some way. Gen, the protagonist, is particularly lovable and hilarious with his sarcastic wit and talent to be conniving yet admirable.
Turner has an above-bar talent for writing! This book won a Newberry Honor Award, so I think others would agree. There are so many twists and turns in the story that you do not see coming. She has a talent for writing exactly what she means, while making you think something entirely different. It's great. I love surprises!
This book is full of adventure and mystery and also portrays honor, bravery and character.
The Piece of Hair That Fell Into the Batter: The beginning is SLIGHTLY slow-moving, BUT keep going because the rest of the book is amazing-as well as the rest of the series.
My Rating:
out of 5 Cupcakes!
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Oohh it sounds good! I love book reviews so keep 'em coming! Have you read Andrew Peterson's "Wingfeather Saga" Series yet? So far there are two in the series and they are soo good. I could not put them down. Hopefully the 3rd one will come out soon.
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Yay for Gen!!!!! I can't wait to read your review for Queen (and King and Conspiracy too). Welcome to the Obsessed with All Things Eugenides Club. You may thank me later.
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