Book Review: The Thief

Last week when I was organizing my tags I realized that I didn't have a tag for Megan Whalen Turner, and moreover apparently never reviewed any of her books on this blog?? Which lit a fire under my long-smoldering plan to reread the first five Queen's Thief books before at last tackling Return of the Thief, which has been on my TBR shelf for *mumblecough* a while.

Today at long last, I have begun this journey with The Thief! I first read this book in the late nineties, when I was eleven or twelve, and I must have reread it more a few times back then because I found I remembered it far better than one single read would account for. But it's been years since my last reread, so while I was rereading it as an adult I also felt a clear echo of my childhood reactions.

( Spoilers, not only for this book but potentially for later books in the series as well )