The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1) | Megan Whalen Turner

The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1) | Megan Whalen Turner | Unbelievable

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	The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1) Megan Whalen Turner HarperCollins, 2006 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 124 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent for all ages

Extremely well plotted, this novel has lots of intricacy that merit even a second reading! I enjoyed Eugenides tremendously in this first of three, and his character keeps getting better in the next two novels. While I was very entertained by The Thief, the foundation it builds for The Queen of Attolia and the 3rd novel, The King of Attolia were even more important. Another point: even though there were more twists and turns in this than Lombard Street in San Francisco, it was easily enough followed and completely self-contained. Great surprise ending.

Unbelievable

Intriguing plot, well-developed characters, amazing setting--what more can you ask for? I can't believe people have found this book to be "boring"! Nothing could be further from the truth. Pick up this book, it is time well spent.

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best ya fantasy I've ever read

Wonderful characterization, extremely well plotted (the surprises really are surprising), great mood throughout. Each book in the triology is excellent, but I believe The Thief is the best of the three. I've never read a better fantasy book for young adults (and I've read many).

Some boring parts, but pretty dang good

THE THIEF, by Megan Whalen Turner, has all the elements of a perfect story. A great, smart, funny main character, excellent side characters (I particularly liked the magus's development, though of course Sophos was the nicest) and a good plot, involving a masterwork of original mythology, albeit mythology that has roots deep down (deeeeeeeep down) in Greek myths. As an additional (but unfortunately rather rare) bonus, Turner can write. She can write very well. So why was so much of this book so boring?

I understand that this is a character-driven novel, as all good fiction is. I understand that there must be time allotted to character development. But that doesn't mean that half the book should be taken up with Gen's, Sophos's, Ambiades's, Pol's, and the magus's journey through the wilderness as we learn to like them, in a begrudging sort of way. (Well, Sophos is likable, but the magus's transformation-without-a-transformation -- in other words, the shift in how Gen begins to see him -- is truly remarkable.) If the story had begun with Gen's bragging, and him stealing the seal, and being thrown in prison -- maybe then Turner could have added on the pages she needed for a full-length novel and still been able to delete the chapters upon chapters of boredom. Or maybe a gang of robbers could have attacked them on the road and carried off Sophos, developing HIS character and forcing the others to rescue him. There were so many opportunities there, but worse, it was simply boring. Brilliant writing won't get you anywhere without action in the story -- action besides Gen exchanging witty blows with Ambiades and falling off his horse yet again.

It was a good story, and I'll certainly be reading THE QUEEN OF ATTOLIA and THE KING OF ATTOLIA, but it would have been nice if there were a bit more action.

Rating: Very Good

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the theif review

In the book The Thief, written by Megan Whalen Turner, is a book about a thief named Gen. He got caught stealing the kings seal and was put in jail. He is released but he has to find and steal an ancient treasure for the king's Magus. But Gen has a few plans of his own. Gen was a wine thief, Magus was a scholar of the king, and Pol was a guard to keep track of Gen.
The theme of this story is not to let snobs push you around. Gen thought the king was just using him as a tool so he shows him what for. This is a good book to read because it has a lot of adventure and it really kept the pages turning. I highly recommend it for people in middle schools.

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