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A review by goodverbsonly
Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner
5.0
1/8/2022: actually i take back everything i said this book is perfect.
1/7/2019:
so uhhh here’s a couple things i didn’t like about it since it’s definitely easier to pinpoint why i took off a star than why it earned four of them:
these books have very slow beginnings and i think i was 150 pages in before i was like - oh hell yeah adventure across the mede empire time. nothing substantial changed so maybe it was just coming home from school and it being a Great Change when i came home from my internship (as opposed to Another Thing to Do when i finished my homework) or maybe it’s just the way her writing is: you need a second to ease into it. once i did, like Great stuff. engaging and smart and beautiful etc etc
i have NO idea how old anyone is or how much time has passed because they’re “stand-alone novels” ... Thick As Thieves takes place after The King of Attolia and probably after A Conspiracy of Kings because Gen Seems Older but whose to say. But putting aside that I’m Dumb (a given) it seems a lot of people have the same problem of determining the passage of time for a lot of reasons. 1)The Queen of Attolia takes place over a lot of time. 2)stand-alone novels can’t/don’t rely heavily on each other except that they build on each other 3) none of these characters (especially kamet) really know about each other and are almost always telling the story to someone who knows them intimately and was involved in the chaos so they don’t need to tell me the year or how old Irene is that she’s “old” to be starting to have children (by the way i paused at this point to look it up and the consensus is Around 30 which is fair i guess...) anyway wish i knew EXACTLY how old eugenides was. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (i adore him)
(also a post on tumblr about how the narrative moves further away from gen each time the gods meddle in his life is making these stories infinitely Easier on me a woman who would die for gen)
1/7/2019:
so uhhh here’s a couple things i didn’t like about it since it’s definitely easier to pinpoint why i took off a star than why it earned four of them:
these books have very slow beginnings and i think i was 150 pages in before i was like - oh hell yeah adventure across the mede empire time. nothing substantial changed so maybe it was just coming home from school and it being a Great Change when i came home from my internship (as opposed to Another Thing to Do when i finished my homework) or maybe it’s just the way her writing is: you need a second to ease into it. once i did, like Great stuff. engaging and smart and beautiful etc etc
i have NO idea how old anyone is or how much time has passed because they’re “stand-alone novels” ... Thick As Thieves takes place after The King of Attolia and probably after A Conspiracy of Kings because Gen Seems Older but whose to say. But putting aside that I’m Dumb (a given) it seems a lot of people have the same problem of determining the passage of time for a lot of reasons. 1)The Queen of Attolia takes place over a lot of time. 2)stand-alone novels can’t/don’t rely heavily on each other except that they build on each other 3) none of these characters (especially kamet) really know about each other and are almost always telling the story to someone who knows them intimately and was involved in the chaos so they don’t need to tell me the year or how old Irene is that she’s “old” to be starting to have children (by the way i paused at this point to look it up and the consensus is Around 30 which is fair i guess...) anyway wish i knew EXACTLY how old eugenides was. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (i adore him)
(also a post on tumblr about how the narrative moves further away from gen each time the gods meddle in his life is making these stories infinitely Easier on me a woman who would die for gen)