Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner
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4/5. Book five, and a new POV character. It’s another theft caper, except the object is our narrator, who needs to be stolen from his powerful master and, eventually, from all the nonsense he built up in his head to survive.
This one got a little frustrating, since the first 80% is a long, frantic flight across hostile countryside, as a series of variously terrible things go wrong. Stressful! But oh man, that last 20% is so worth it as the convolutions of the scheme spin out. And Irene. Oh, Irene. My heart hurts for them.
I do think that Turner is on the brink of becoming too . . . chary of her hero. She really likes showing him from other points of view, particularly from the POV of people who don’t really understand him and what he’s doing. Which is a perfectly fine narrative kink – and I like it – but at a certain point we do actually need to be in his head again. Otherwise, he’s going to start looking invincibly clever. And this is Eugenides, so we really cannot have that.
4/5. Book five, and a new POV character. It’s another theft caper, except the object is our narrator, who needs to be stolen from his powerful master and, eventually, from all the nonsense he built up in his head to survive.
This one got a little frustrating, since the first 80% is a long, frantic flight across hostile countryside, as a series of variously terrible things go wrong. Stressful! But oh man, that last 20% is so worth it as the convolutions of the scheme spin out. And Irene. Oh, Irene. My heart hurts for them.
I do think that Turner is on the brink of becoming too . . . chary of her hero. She really likes showing him from other points of view, particularly from the POV of people who don’t really understand him and what he’s doing. Which is a perfectly fine narrative kink – and I like it – but at a certain point we do actually need to be in his head again. Otherwise, he’s going to start looking invincibly clever. And this is Eugenides, so we really cannot have that.