Book Review | The Thief -Queen's Thief Series Book 1 By Megan Whalen Turner

Book Summary 

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skilful thief, and he selects Gen from the king's prison. The magus is interested only in the thief's abilities. 

What Gen is interested in is anyone's guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses

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This first book in the Queen's Thief series is told from Gen's perspective. He is a thief, who wandering in the streets and wineshop of Sounis(a kingdom), claimed that he is the best thief and can steal anything. When he gets caught and sent to the prison, Sounis's king and the magus (king's advisor) bargains for his freedom in lieu of a quest to steal something for them. Something, which only heard in old ancient stories and nobody is sure of the existence of it.

Book gets into action from there, and the most first half of the book is about Gen with the magus, his apprentices and a soldier's journey to search for this treasure crossing the neighbour countries Eddis and Attolia.

I will admit there was a little bit more travel description in the first half for my liking and had a very slow pace. But I completely loved the dynamics of the group and how Gen analyzes them while travelling. I loved the Earth and the Sky's stories and how the creation of the world and people's beliefs in different Gods were mentioned.

The story progresses later in the book for better, and I loved the second part of the book more as compared to first. Loved the characters and the revelation at the end which was a pleasant surprise. The best part was Gen as the main character, I loved him completely. He was an unreliable narrator, but also very snarky, clever, mysterious and interesting with his point of view.

I will definitely recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy and prefer character development over plot.

Story -4

Characters - 5
Writing - 5
Overall Setting and World Building - 5

Overall Rating - 4.75 Stars!

2nd Read (April 2019)-

Overall Rating - 4 Stars!

It was such a great reread! As expected, really loved the second half more than the first.
Dropped my rating because I know later books are much much better than this one.Cannot wait to reread the rest...It's going to be great!