A review by erinmcgawley
The Diamond Thief by Sharon Gosling

3.0

Eh. The only reason I read this is because I bought it at a Scholastic book fair when I was 8 and never managed to get through it when I was a ✨child✨. But, I found it on my shelf the other day and decided to go through it - just to see what it was actually like. And there was actually good reason for me not being able to get through it as a child; there was far too much happening at all given times. It felt rushed and the ‘plot twists’ were forced and clichéd. It was a cool concept but not particularly well written. I can see why it was marketed to kids, but by the same token it wasn’t coherent enough to make enough sense to eight year old me who just got too bored/confused of it to keep going. I sort of liked it? But wouldn’t read again due to the lack of structure it had. It honestly felt like the writer didn’t know what was going to happen next either and thus something got made up that didn’t completely make sense.