![]() If you enjoy quick-paced, engaging MG fantasy, you won't regret preordering this one. The Magic Thief will be out this June, it's the first of a trilogy, and it's wonderful. ![]() I have a weakness for thieves to begin with, but by the end of the first chapter I was grinning idiotically (always a good sign) and I knew that I was going to like Conn very much indeed. The characters in The Magic Thief are realistically flawed and fallible, yet they never lost my interest or (where appropriate) my sympathy I particularly liked the way that Prineas developed a couple of the secondary characters, subverting my expectations of them in a surprising and satisfying way. ![]() The invented world in which Conn moves has a Dickensian flair without being merely alt-Victoriana, and its magical system is both well imagined and intriguing. But in Sarah Prineas's hands a story that could have been predictable instead has a wonderful freshness and vitality about it. The Magic Thief has a number of familiar fantasy motifs and character types. This book made me absurdly and enormously happy. ![]()
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