The Thief: A Newbery Honor Award Winner: 1 (Queen's Thief)

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And we haven’t even gotten to how to depict the thorny, complex, sexy-without-being-explicit power dynamics between Attolia and Gen in that book and others.

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Gen hides atop a boulder, then launches himself onto an Attolian riding past and scatters the troops before fleeing into the olive trees, hoping to get far enough away to hide. The magus and Sophos are sent home, but not before Sophos reveals a fledgling crush on the queen of Eddis. It’s not until Sophos gets him alone that he finally gets to glimpse Eugenides, with the two old friends getting only one private moment to plot how Sounis will earn the respect of his barons and fight off the latest Mede ambassador, Akretenesh. Once he has provided intel to the advisors, and comforted the queen that her time will come, Kamet gets to leave the capital for the town of Roa, to work as a scribe with a new sense of purpose as a free man… and to be with his new best friend Costis (!Series Moment: The double whammy of Eddis welcoming her Thief back to his homeland—revealing that he is not gutter trash, but a member of the Eddisian royal family—and Gen, a. Gen even goes so far as to correct the magus’s recitation, as his mother was from Eddis and taught him the stories when he was young.

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He seemed like a half acute observer, and until they reached the Temple, there was NO THIEVEING HAPPENING. Now more powerful and cunning than ever before, Eugenides must navigate a perilous future in this sweeping conclusion. Mythology: Attolia’s maid Phresine tells Eugenides and Costis about Klimun, the king who was warned by the gods not to lie by moonlight. The elder of the magus’s two apprentices, Ambiades is full of his own self-importance and loathes Gen.Our new narrator, in close-third for the majority of the novel, is a member of the Queen’s Guard, who starts the book by punching the king of Attolia.

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Later, he strips down in the baths with the other guards, who finally see him not just as Attolia’s king, but as Annux, king of kings. The Sky promised to give his thunderbolts to Hephestia but didn’t, so Eugenides stole them on his godly sister’s behalf.She asks who brings him (“myself”), whether he comes to offer or take (“to take”), and warns him to not offend the gods. When Nahuseresh is poisoned, Kamet is forced to flee; he didn’t poison his master, but knows that he will be framed nonetheless. The Thief is a young adult fantasy novel by Megan Whalen Turner published in 1996 by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of William Morrow (later, of HarperCollins). On the Road: Gen and the magus leave the next morning with three traveling companions: Ambiades, Sophos, and Pol. But, as with gifts from the gods in Turner’s beloved fantasy series, this news inspires some critical thought regarding how to handle the first book’s incredible feat of narration-as-withholding, and the series’ increasingly darker tone and content.

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Discover and rediscover the stand-alone companions, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings, all epic novels set in the world of the Queen’s Thief.First it’s a way to pass time on the road, for Costis to learn more about Kamet’s world and compare with his own mythologies. This edition of The Thief includes an exclusive piece by Megan Whalen Turner about her inspiration for the setting of the story, an introduction to the characters from the world of the Queen’s Thief, a map of the world of the Queen’s Thief, and an exclusive teaser to Thick as Thieves. When he needs something stolen, he pulls a young thief from the King's prison to do the job for him. Upon awaking, Gen tells the magus of the maze, the trap, and the bones, wondering why they’re all in the back with none in the trap. While she initially plans to kill him to recover her pride and control, Attolia decides instead to spare his life for a crueler punishment: She cuts off his hand.