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Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson

85 reviews

jessiemp2024's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I loved the characters, Kazi is a strong female, with a tragic past, bent on making up for previous indiscretions and bound to find a war criminal for her queen; Jase is the new leader of his family and realm, with the weight of the world on his shoulders. After a fantastic meet-cute, Kazi and Jase are forced to rely on each other for survival. Tensions and heat collide until the duo is back in Jase's kingdom and its back to business for Kazi. But their time together is hard to forget and the feelings keep growing even while the secrets pile up.
Surprise after surprise finally shed light on some big issues and the two must decide whether to follow duty or their hearts.
The ending actually surprised me a bit and I'll definitely me reading the sequel.

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chi__'s review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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callistag1's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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fantasy_voyager98's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Mrs.Pearson's Dance Of Thieves. has wonderful world building, romance,action,and an amazing cast of characters each with their own motives,and personalities . Mrs.Pearson's beautiful storytelling,and brilliant attention to detail is truly spectacular.

Kazi and Jase's opposites attract swoon worthy romance story is written to perfection,and I appreciated the witty banter moments especially whenever Kazi is never afraid to speak her mind. Jase is definitely book boyfriend material,and Kazi is perfect for him.

Synove,Wren,and Kazi's friendship throughout the whole story is amazing to see,and they are truly thick as thieves.

I will definitely be buying the sequel Vow Of Thieves to read even more of Jase and Kazi's story,and to learn more about the other character's.

I highly recommend buying the beautiful B&N exclusive edition of Dance Of Thieves it looks amazing on book shelves,and it has shiny gold sprayed edges with a stunning white cover.

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lindseyhall44's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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tinysierra's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dance of Thieves plays very well into its tropes.

-Enemies to Lovers (knife to throat!!)
-Forced Proximity
-Reluctant Allies
-Fake Dating (kinda?)

Based on the TikTok hype and the sypnosis, I assumed that this would be a high stakes, fast paced adventure similar to Six of Crows and Guilded Wolves. While there was a bit of an adventure in the first few chapters, the book overall was slow paced, focused on characters, family, romance and politics. It was more akin to Graceling.

The title was fitting. It felt like a dance or a game being played between the main characters. We get both Kazi and Jase’s POVs, which was a nice setup for the story.

I have a soft spot for thieves with angsty backstories so I loved Kazi. I liked the way that she came up with riddles.

The romance was well done. It felt like it developed a bit fast but it made sense considering the forced proximity, and they continue to develop their feelings over the rest of the book.

The fatal flaw of the book for me was the amount of telling instead of showing.

It ends on a cliffhanger but I personally will be ignoring the last chapter and will not be reading the next book.

A bit confused on why Jase invited a stranger into his home and decided to trust her and tell her everything? Including telling her about the family vault?? Vaults are supposed to be a secret?? Like… what. But it’s not really even a vault… it’s a bunker?

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veni_vidi_legi's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first 100 or so pages are a little slower, but after that it’s very gripping. Ends on a cliffhanger. I recommend you wait to read Chapter 62 (the last chapter, about 1 1/2 pages) until you have book 2 on hand.

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jg34's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I was pulled into this one from the start! I am a sucker for a good romance and I loved Kazi and Jase. Love a male main character who gets proved wrong by a woman over and over but takes it like a man and doesn’t let pride get in the way. I felt like at the end Jase could see why Kazi did what she did and was understanding and even grateful despite how angry he may have been at first. That type of maturity may only exist in books but I knew this was a fantasy going in and I LOVED. I also liked the female friendships in this book!

I will say I’m coming at this just focusing on the story, I really don’t pay close attention to how well the world building and lore and all that is so I can’t be critical about that. I was confused about certain details sometimes but likely my fault. Some plot lines were left open but there is a sequel so I will be reading that asap!!

Not spicy if that’s what you’re looking for (but u shouldn’t be bc this is young adult)

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