Megan Whalen Turner writes both short stories and novels. She is best known for her popular QUEEN’S THIEF young adult fantasy series. Her first novel in this series, The Thief, was a 1997 Newbery Honor Book. The final book in this series, Return of the Thief, comes out today (I loved it!). One random commenter […]
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The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner “I can steal anything.” With that boast, Gen sets into action a course of events that could affect kingdoms. When he boasts that he can steal the King’s Seal, and then delivers on his promise, he is arrested and thrown into prison, where he languishes until the King’s Magus […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED), Tadiana Jones and Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4.5 | Megan Whalen Turner | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner Eugenides ends The Thief in triumph, but within the first chapter of this sequel, he is back in the prisons of the Queen of Attolia, where he loses his hand to the executioner’s axe, while the Queen looks on impassively. Forced to deal with the rest of […]
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The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner Gen is now The King of Attolia, married to the woman who he has loved since childhood, who also ordered his hand cut off when he was caught snooping around the castle. At the end of the last book, The Queen of Attolia, he offered to marry […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 3.5 | Megan Whalen Turner | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner Eugenides is now the respected, if not loved, King of Attolia. When his childhood friend improbably becomes King of Sounis, Attolia’s neighboring country and historical adversary, Eugenides has to choose between loyalty to his new country, his queen, his homeland and his friend. Is there any way […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 5 | Megan Whalen Turner | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
“Thief!” by Megan Whalen Turner Readers who (like me) are fond of Megan Whalen Turner’s THE QUEEN’S THIEF fantasy series, and who mourn the length of time between publication of her novels, can ease their pain just a little with the short story “Thief!,” originally published in August 2000 in Disney Adventures Magazine and now posted […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | Megan Whalen Turner | Children | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner Note: This review contains some spoilers for the second book in the QUEEN’S THIEF series, The Queen of Attolia. In Thick as Thieves (2017), the long-awaited fifth book in Megan Whalen Turner’s QUEEN’S THIEF series, the setting shifts away from the peninsula where Eddis, Attolia and Sounis are, […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Megan Whalen Turner | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Megan Whalen Turner’s QUEEN’S THIEF young adult fantasy series, a masterwork of twisting plots, deceptive plans, and occasional divine interventions from the first book to the last, winds to a close with Return of the Thief (2020), twenty-four years after the publication of The Thief. Return of […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 5 | Megan Whalen Turner | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
The FIREBIRDS anthologies edited by Sharyn November Firebirds is the first of the three FIREBIRD anthologies edited by Sharyn November. Some people don’t like short stories, especially in anthologies where you are reading several different authors. I, however, almost always have a volume of short stories on my bedside table. Even if I manage to get no other […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 4.5 | Delia Sherman, Diana Wynne Jones, Emma Bull, Garth Nix, Kara Dalkey, Lloyd Alexander, Megan Whalen Turner, Meredith Ann Pierce, Nancy Farmer, Nancy Springer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia McKillip, Sherwood Smith | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
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