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

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As clever as ever, Turner embeds several mentions of the strange, narrow pockets in Sounis’ new wardrobe from Attolis, but he doesn’t realize it until he finds both guns. After fleeing the Sky’s mountain, he hid the bolts in Hephestia’s temple and told the Sky where they were in exchange for a drink of the waters of immortality. 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.

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Many a story is devoted to the trickster Eugenides and how he attained immortality, but at great loss of his mortal family. Eddis tells this story to the magus, which only in retrospect is made clear that she’s processing her feelings about sending Eugenides to Attolia for an arranged marriage, with no promise of when she’ll ever see him again. By the time they arrive in Attolia, where he assumes the best possible fate is a humble living as a street-corner scribe, he is instead stunned to learn that he is no hostage or exile, but an honored guest of Attolis and Attolia. Months of back-breaking labor and solidarity with his fellow poetry-loving field hands on a rebel baron’s estate reshape Sophos’ soft upbringing into something hard and simple, but rewarding. In addition to its charismatic hero, this story possesses one of the most valuable treasures of all—a twinkling jewel of a surprise ending.When he demands to know why they cut off his hand and trapped him in a royal role he never wanted, they show him a vision of the Sacred Mountain erupting—the reason for needing to unite Eddis and Attolia.

The Thief Book Review | Common Sense Media The Thief Book Review | Common Sense Media

Like the magus of Sounis, who he frames for sabotage and whisks away to Eddis to be their honored prisoner.Traveling from Sounis to Attolia—crossing through the mountain nation of Eddis, between the two—Gen gets to know the magus’ two apprentices, Sophos (easy to blush and hopeless with a sword) and Ambiades (the poor son of a fallen noble house), and the soldier Pol (Sophos’ bodyguard). New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner’s entrancing and award-winning Queen’s Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. Not literally, but he’s forced to trail Eugenides all over the palace, from lessons in the Mede language to awkward encounters when courtiers sing Dite Erondites’ mocking song “The king’s Wedding Night” with its humiliating speculation as to what passed between this boy king and the icy Attolia. The three make their way to the Eddisian capital, where Gen presents the queen with Hamiathes's Gift. The main character, a boy named Gen (short for Eugenides), is released from prison by the magus of the King of Sounis.

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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.Megan Whalen Turner has been awarded a Newbery Honor and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. Yes, marriage—not just as an alliance between Attolia and Eddis, but because Eugenides is in love with her. 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. The Thief without Eugenides’ voice just isn’t The Thief: only by having him very deliberately narrate the events of the book do readers come to realize how thoroughly he’s fooled them. But, you know, once that passes, he looks up and studies the massive pieces of obsidian that stud the walls of the maze.

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