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Summary: After bragging in a Sounisian wineshop that he can steal anything, common thief Gen is freed from the king of Sounis’ prison by Sounis’ magus, who wants him to steal the impossible: Hamiathes’ Gift, a stone blessed by the gods that confers the divine right to rule to its owner. 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). Sounis: Where we begin. Sounis is a coastal country, ruled by a king, that amasses its power by warring to take land and property away from its neighbors. Obviously the aforementioned Hamiathes’ Gift reveal in The Thief, but I’m also super interested in seeing how Gen’s fight with the Attolian guard plays out. Hegoes into something of a fugue state while fighting, with the book cutting away from the action and only hinting (through the others’ impressed/horrified reactions) at the damage the skilled Thief dealt via the swordplay he so hates. Storytime, Pt. II: The magus asks Gen to tell the story of his namesake. Eugenides was a gift from the Earth to a childless woodcutter and his wife, and the Earth brought Eugenides gifts of her own as he grows. Jealous, the Sky tried to kill Eugenides, so the Earth turned on humans who worshipped the sky. Their eldest child, the Great Goddess Hephestia, intervened and brokered a truce, which is why humans turn to her in times of need. To miss this thief’s story would be a crime.”— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)
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Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. Make your guesses while reading this excerpt (with a mystery first-person narrator), and here’s the teasingly vague summary for Return of The Thief: Eugenides, can steal anything – or so he says. Then his boasting lands him in the king’s prison, and his chances of escape look slim.
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Once upon a time, a debut author wrote a book about a thief, and that book was so good that it won the Newbery, spawned a series lasting over twenty years, and inspired an entire generation of fantasy writers you know and love. Your faves? Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Laini Taylor, Cassandra Clare… yeah, they’re all fans. Matilda Briggs on The Secret of the Sul’Dam: Subtle Changes to the Way the One Power Works in The Wheel of Time TV Series 21 mins ago Gen endures couple of beatings in prison and on the road with the magus. He kills enemies in a swordfight and feels bad about it. Pol: A soldier and the expedition’s protection. As the captain of Sophos’s father’s guard, even the magus treats Pol with respect. So he pulls out Attolia and Attolis’ gifts, two pistols, and shoots his greatest rival among the barons, as well as Akretenesh. After the barons re-vote unanimously to install Sounis as their king, he leads them in what he expects will be a suicide mission against ten thousand Mede forces—only to find that Attolis, who had initially sent only a small force, sent more soldiers to help.Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis. As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike.
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Who Eugenides will be by the end of the series is anyone’s guess. He never stopped being the Thief, but he’s also become an epic ruler out of legend without losing any of his cleverness. With the final book titled Return of The Thief, we can only hope for Eugenides to succeed in stealing at least one more surprise. The most powerful advisor to the King of Sounis is the magus. He's not a wizard, he’s a scholar, an aging solider, not a thief. When he needs something stolen, he pulls a young thief from the King's prison to do the job for him.a b c d e The Thief title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2015-11-01. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents. Robert on The Secret of the Sul’Dam: Subtle Changes to the Way the One Power Works in The Wheel of Time TV Series 2 hours ago
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Alger Drew, Bernard (2002). 100 More Popular Young Adult Authors. Libraries Unlimited. p. 316. ISBN 1563089203. Once he has provided intel to the advisors, and comforted the queen that her time will come, Kamet gets to leave the capital for the town of Roa, to work as a scribe with a new sense of purpose as a free man… and to be with his new best friend Costis (!) after their incredible adventure.
Turner was the 2013 Literary Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. [7]
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