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A review by goodverbsonly
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
5.0
I READ THIS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR READING OLYMPICS AND I AM JUST NOW FINDING OUT THERE ARE MORE OF THESE???????????
I took a star off. As I remember the ending to it is riveting and it works well as a standalone book, which I thought it was for years and years and years.
However, the writing at the beginning is slow, and honestly, I don’t want to read a YA version of an early british novel. which is like my only Major Complaint.
EDIT 10/13/20: Just Kidding, five stars to the book the rocked my world all the way back in 2011. 2010? 2011. Reading the first time, at the appropriate age level, because it does read very YA, I had never loved a book the way I loved this one. 14 year old me was quaking, and it has all of the elements that I continue to look for in novels: 1) baby bastard characters (Eugenides), 2) beautiful descriptions of the Mediterranean landscapes 3) painstaking detail about where characters are going to and coming from. 4) political marriages!!!!!!! 5) characters who are very young and very responsible and have Quite Literally the Weight of the World on their shoulders.
Very enraptured by the way Eugenides literally walks among the gods and looks Hephestia in the eyes, very moved by the way he slowly realizes he's still got the eyes of the gods on him. Never read a more skillfully written book in my life. The way it starts very narrow (baby thief in prison, wants fame and fortune but mostly wants his freedom), and broadens slowly to paint the world in solid and vivid detail, and includes, mostly, political marriages. Anyway, this was best upon Informed ReRead.
8/11/2021: Oh Eugenides…makes sense when u remember he’s a very precocious 13 year old. Baby boy!!
I took a star off. As I remember the ending to it is riveting and it works well as a standalone book, which I thought it was for years and years and years.
However, the writing at the beginning is slow, and honestly, I don’t want to read a YA version of an early british novel. which is like my only Major Complaint.
EDIT 10/13/20: Just Kidding, five stars to the book the rocked my world all the way back in 2011. 2010? 2011. Reading the first time, at the appropriate age level, because it does read very YA, I had never loved a book the way I loved this one. 14 year old me was quaking, and it has all of the elements that I continue to look for in novels: 1) baby bastard characters (Eugenides), 2) beautiful descriptions of the Mediterranean landscapes 3) painstaking detail about where characters are going to and coming from. 4) political marriages!!!!!!! 5) characters who are very young and very responsible and have Quite Literally the Weight of the World on their shoulders.
Very enraptured by the way Eugenides literally walks among the gods and looks Hephestia in the eyes, very moved by the way he slowly realizes he's still got the eyes of the gods on him. Never read a more skillfully written book in my life. The way it starts very narrow (baby thief in prison, wants fame and fortune but mostly wants his freedom), and broadens slowly to paint the world in solid and vivid detail, and includes, mostly, political marriages. Anyway, this was best upon Informed ReRead.
8/11/2021: Oh Eugenides…makes sense when u remember he’s a very precocious 13 year old. Baby boy!!