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A review by aforestofbooks
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
I’ve been meaning to read this book for years and randomly decided to pick it up because I felt slumpy and knew reading a physical book would be a bad idea.
This was pretty good, though not as good as I was expecting. There’s a lot of world building and it is slow. You can tell the author is trying to set up the plot for this series, so parts of it can drag. The one issue I had was trying to picture what was happening in my head. I wish there was a more detailed map (at the beginning of the book) to help guide the reader on the journey Eugenides takes with the magus and Pol and the two annoying boys. But at the same time, I feel like some of the descriptions of their journey, the topography, and the flora were just confusing. Usually, when I read, the book plays like a movie in my head, but for the life of me I couldn’t imagine where the characters were or what their surrounding looked like. The temple too was really confusing for me to imagine and I wish there was a map of that too.
The ending did take me by surprise a little. A part of me expected that Eugenides was hiding Hamiathe’s Gift somewhere, but seeing who he actually is at the end was a little shock. It almost makes me want to read the rest of the series, but I’m unsure right now if that’ll happen any time soon.
This was pretty good, though not as good as I was expecting. There’s a lot of world building and it is slow. You can tell the author is trying to set up the plot for this series, so parts of it can drag. The one issue I had was trying to picture what was happening in my head. I wish there was a more detailed map (at the beginning of the book) to help guide the reader on the journey Eugenides takes with the magus and Pol and the two annoying boys. But at the same time, I feel like some of the descriptions of their journey, the topography, and the flora were just confusing. Usually, when I read, the book plays like a movie in my head, but for the life of me I couldn’t imagine where the characters were or what their surrounding looked like. The temple too was really confusing for me to imagine and I wish there was a map of that too.
The ending did take me by surprise a little. A part of me expected that Eugenides was hiding Hamiathe’s Gift somewhere, but seeing who he actually is at the end was a little shock. It almost makes me want to read the rest of the series, but I’m unsure right now if that’ll happen any time soon.