A Review Category / A Reviews / A- Reviews / Book ReviewsFantasy Romance / gods / Mediterranean setting / Megan-Whalen-Turner / myth / romantic / thief / Young-Adult53 Comments
Dear Ms. Turner, Last month Jane, Jia and I embarked on Keishon’s TBR challenge 2009. This time Keishon’s suggestion is a book that AAR has rated as a DIK (Desert Isle Keeper). While scanning through AAR’s list of DIK reviews, I was excited to unearth Rike’s review of your Thief ... more >
B- ReviewsAvon / thief6 Comments
Dear Ms. Thomas: Your books remind me acutely how much of the relationship between reader and book depends on some chemical, perhaps even alchemical, reaction, indescribable yet potent in its effect. They also remind me of how possible it is, even now, for a compelling storyteller to make stock characters ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviewsart thief / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / Regency England / Suzanne-Enoch / thief16 Comments
Dear Ms. Enoch: Like commenter Corrine, I had admittedly had some issues with the past few historicals. I had enjoyed England’s Perfect Hero so much (as Corrine says “hands-down favorite SE title”) that it may have affected my opinion of the books that followed. Needless to say, I adored After ... more >
A Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviewsconversational review / courtesan / Loretta-Chase / thief / Venice133 Comments
Jane: At the beginning of Lord of Scoundrels, a book that has been in print since its first publication in 1995, Lord Dain meets Jessica Trent for the first time She was not classic English perfection, but she was some sort of perfection and, being neither blind nor ignorant, Lord ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsFantasy Romance / gods / Mediterranean setting / Megan-Whalen-Turner / myth / Romance / thief / war / Young-Adult21 Comments
Dear Ms. Turner, Since in reality, our reviews are at least as much for readers as they are for authors, let me begin this letter with a warning to readers who haven’t embarked on your YA fantasy series beginning with The Thief. The book I am about to review here ... more >
B- ReviewsFantasy Romance / gods / good-narration / Megan-Whalen-Turner / myth / thief / Young-Adult25 Comments
Dear Ms. Turner, Your young adult fantasy novel, The Thief, was named a 1997 Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. After hearing good things about the series that begins with this book from two different friends, I was eager to begin ... more >