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Master of One

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Rags the thief has never met a pocket he couldn't pick, but when he's captured by a sorcerer with world-ending plans, he realizes even he is in over his head. The pacing also took a bit of a nosedive from here and I sped through to find Rag's chapters, which were easily the ones I enjoyed the most.

With the heist and intrigue of Six of Crows and the dark fairy tale feel of The Cruel Prince, this young adult fantasy debut will have readers rooting for a pair of reluctant heroes as they take on a world-ending fae prophecy, a malicious royal plot, and, most dangerously of all, their feelings for each other.As covered in David Epstein’s book, Range, progression and breakthroughs happen at the interfaces between specialisms. Their relationship is a slow burn, an achingly beautiful queer romance between them, a chemistry and a yearning intense and lovely to read. There is LGBTQ+ rep, and a character is disabled due to a chronic illness (this one is hard for me to peg for the rep, but the character has a chronic illness and their body has some birth defects which has resulted in the necessary use of help for walking). It is not a "heist story" even though a thief is the main character, it is more an Indiana Jones looking for lost fae treasure story. As the pages turned we got to meet an exciting group of people that added their own personality to the story and you could tell that they had a purpose.

He's a cocky, sarcastic thief from the slums who's found himself on the end of a job gone wrong, bruised and battered in the royal dungeon, trying to plot his escape. There's a real plot, a real lore, adventures, likeable and interesting characters that get to know each others and bond slowly (understand "credibly") over this unpredicted and heavy task falling on their shoulders. My natural curiosity led me to find out how other departments functioned, how marketing could help them and how they could help me.Insert some AMAZING dry humor and slow burn M/M romance between the Fae warrior and Rags—plus a truly eclectic cast of other side characters including an ex-Queensguard, a banished former court lady, a transgender actress, and a disabled prince—and you've got a winner. I'll admit, I definitely had, and have, a bias, and once the story broke away from Rags as the sole main character, I had a bit of separation anxiety. The main relationship the reader sees is between Rags and Shining Talon, self deprecating, full of dark humour and doubts the first, a Fae brilliant, honorable and hilarious in not undestanding jokes and human nature the second.

Their published work includes four novels from the Volstovic Cycle, in addition to their many twitter rants on intersectional feminism and the NYC subway system.Until he's caught by the Queensguard and forced to find an ancient fae relic for a sadistic royal sorcerer. overall it was pretty disappointing, especially since the premise had so many things i should have liked, but it was a digestible read and can still be fun if you want to give it a try. I liked the creatures and the edition is beautiful but unfortunately, this book is going to me traded in. the fantasy worldbuilding was interesting and the romance was cute, i just had a slight issue with the characters, as i only found myself growing attached to a couple of them. His world expands when he's thrust into a complex and dangerous situation, forcing him to grow, to work with others, to understand himself and the world around him.

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