This month's book is The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. It's a Young Adult book and I really enjoyed it! Go get your hands on a copy and start discussing now! :)
Anyone? :( It really is a good book!!
I know my local group of libraries are a bit dodgy and only book 3 (like 4 copies of it, who does that?!), but I think most libraries will let you search for a wider net of libraries. For instance, if I go in and search "all" libraries, I can see there are 7 copies on shelves in Victoria. I can then place a hold on this book and they'll ship it to my library for free, and really quickly too!
So, I definitely recommend you go in and investigate, libraries are a great resource and free too!
Mystic Guildmistress
13 years ago
Mystic Guildmistress
Mage
I have read the Thief, as well as the next two books and I really enjoyed the first two,
I wasn't too fond of the third one though, because of the narrator change, and that's why I haven't gone hunting for the fourth book.
The Thief was a good book, I'll have to go through my bookshelf and find it :)
13 years ago
Tue Mar 13 2012, 04:20pm
I've read all four, and I really liked them all! A Conspiracy of Kings, the fourth one, is sort of more about a different character to the first three, but he does come in to it.
The thing I really like about these books is that even for such short YA books, they still manage to spring surprises on you. For instance, (spoilers for The Thief!):
I kind of got that there was a bit more to Gen than met the eye, but I was not expecting him to be the Thief of Attolia! I did wonder a little tiny bit about why he'd been boasting in wine shops, but didn't get anywhere near to guessing that he'd wanted to get in to jail. I was more thinking "Wonder how else he was going to get out of jail if the Magus didn't take him..."
Wanderer Ward
13 years ago
Wanderer Ward
Dreamscape Artist
I'm waiting on a copy to arrive through the post! I couldn't find any in the stores or libraries near me, so I ordered it from the A&R online store for $10. Bargain! I promise I'll read it as soon as it arrives! ~:|
Wanderer Ward
13 years ago
Wanderer Ward
Dreamscape Artist
[act]pushes over a tottering pile of books[/act]
*dpm* : XXP
Okay, so I did finish reading this a while ago but I've been a little slack ~:|
It took me a really long time to get into this book. I don't think it really snagged my interest until about 150 pages in. After that though, things got more interesting and I was surprised by Gen being the Thief of Attolia. To start with, I thought the characters were rather two dimensional, expecially the two Uselesses (I can't remember their names... Sophos and the other one :P ) and everyone's actions and the dialogue was a bit flat, but it got better after I got into it! Getting into it just took a while... but I did enjoy the second half! :P
I've ordered the Thief from the Book Depository so I'll be able to put my two cents worth in soon. :)
