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By: Moth

Moth — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:37:48 +0000

@hope

I did it! :)

By: hope

hope — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:06:35 +0000

There’s a poll on the fansite for these books that asks how old you were when you first read them. I’d be very interested to see what happens to the results if all the people who found the books through Dear Author went to respond.

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/263378.html

By: Janine

Janine — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:07:18 +0000

The King of Attolia is my favorite in the series so far. But since I've liked each book better than the previous one, my hopes are high for A Conspiracy of Kings. Plus, I loved Sophos. He was my favorite character in The Thief. And given that he plays an important role in book four, I'm probably going to have to start advising people not to skip the first book.

By: Moth

Moth — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:57:03 +0000

@Janine
I haven’t read The Thief yet. I heard mixed things about that one and such good things about The Queen of Attolia, so I skipped right to that one. But now I enjoyed this one so much I’m going to give the Thief a try, requested it from the library today, in fact. :)

I think King of Attolia was my favorite so far, although Conspiracy of Kings looks REALLY good.

By: Janine

Janine — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:59:36 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the book, Moth. The bit on the roof was wonderful and the ten gold cups scene was amazing. Probably my favorite also. Have you read the other two books? Do you have a favorite?

By: Moth

Moth — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:38:52 +0000

I just finished reading this. I loved the bit on the roof. “Go to bed.”

Subtlety. Turner has it.

And the ten gold cups scene was probably my very favorite moment.

By: Janine

Janine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:04:26 +0000

I have news of the next book in this series! It's called A Conspiracy of Kings and will be out in April of 2010. You can see the cover and a spoiler-filled blurb here. I for one cannot wait!

By: Janine

Janine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:02:13 +0000

Glad you enjoyed it, Michaela.

By: michaela

michaela — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:18:53 +0000

i think the ending to the king of attolia was the greatest ending to any book i’ve ever read and i read ALOT! :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:52:17 +0000

“You really do need to read the books in order to get the most out of them. ”

The funny part about me is that i didn’t. My sister got me the King of Attolia when it first came out, thinking i had already read the others. I was a little confused but I loved it and pretty much figured things out from what the characters talked about. I found out later that the first book had actually been around my house for years!

Spoiler
Perhaps it’s just me but when i read King of Attolia I didn’t get that Gen was Eddis’s thief all along. I figured that he became Eddis’s thief in the first book so I was still super surprised at the end of the first book when it turned out he was working for Eddis all along.

Can’t wait for the next book!!!!!!!

By: monica

monica — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:50:55 +0000

i think that i can speak for all your fans when I say that i cannot wait for the next book! i count myself very lucky that i only started on the series in 2006 – a week before the 3rd book came out, because of that, i don’t need to wait as much as those who became fans back in 1995! :))

thanks for giving us Eugenides! I plan to start giving away your books to friends so they can all be excited with me for the coming of the 4th book next year! cheers

By: Alex (a.k.a. thelasteddis)

Alex (a.k.a. thelasteddis) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:42:28 +0000

Yes, that’s something I always loved, too. And the magic that is in it makes sense, it has flaws and limitations. Many fantasy books just say, ‘and then, because Eduardo had the magical staff of goodness, and because he was pure of heart, the clouds parted and the storm was over’. MWT doesn’t do that – her gods can set things in motion, but they don’t just make everything better by mystical powers. I’ve had soooo many books ruined by mystical powers. I despise mystical powers.

By: Janine

Janine — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:01:02 +0000

LOL, Alex. As much as I love some books with dragons, I am very glad this series doesn’t have them. In fact, one of the things I really appreciate is that the magic is kept to a minimum.

By: Alex (a.k.a. thelasteddis)

Alex (a.k.a. thelasteddis) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:37:35 +0000

I attached a link at first, but then I saw someone had already put it up.

I wasn’t serious about the editing stuff out – I love the review. That was more for the benefit of my fellow Sounisians (that’s what the fandom is called – Sounis). It was a reference to a review we found that said the book was great, but needed more traditional fantasy aspects… dragons were their example. We had a field day sticking dragons into favorite quotes. Can’t you just imagine it?

Props on the review!
Alex

By: Janine

Janine — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:49:33 +0000

Brussel Sprout — glad you enjoyed them.

Michelle — Thanks for the link.

Maya – You’re welcome.

By: Maya M.

Maya M. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:48:04 +0000

Thanks for your youthful reader thoughts, everyone. *g*

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:09:06 +0000

Heres the livejournal link: http://community.livejournal.com/sounis

Again I would recommend people try their libraries for the audioversion-it is excellent.

By: Brussel Sprout

Brussel Sprout — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:00:55 +0000

Totally with the reviewer – I loved all three books, and am really looking forward to number 4 – will give me the opp to go and reread.

I’m a huge Lymond fan – these books are not as dense or complex, but that does mean they are ideal reading for the YA market, and challenging, complex, rich and detailed. My son read them this summer. He’s 11.

By: Janine

Janine — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:52:28 +0000

You know, I think I love Irene and Gen together more than either of them apart. They bring out the best in each other. I do agree that Gen was annoying in the first book, but I grew to like him by the end of the second book, and in this book, I really fell hard for him. Irene is a wonderful character as well, but we don’t get to see her many facets explored as much as we see Gen’s explored. Helen has potential, but I can’t say she has captured my heart yet. I love Sophos, and I love the gods.