11.3k reviews for:

Dance of Thieves

Mary E. Pearson

4.1 AVERAGE

rebecca_mcconnachie's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

astridlovesbooks's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense slow-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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Slow to start, but an amazing story once it got going. 

rainbowgirl's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional

annmendi's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

eviedob's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious 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: Complicated

ebcoda's review against another edition

3.75

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Lots of lore. Building towards the next book. I think I’ll play along, see if Paxton  is our enemy or there are others who seek to overturn a dynasty.  

bplatteel's review against another edition

2.5

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

cadet_sorrengail's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 34%

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It is a good book but just didn’t pull me into this zone.. I’ll try again some other time

readwbridget's review against another edition

5.0

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i’ve never quite felt betrayal like that

maggie6832's review against another edition

3.0

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: No

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This book was okay, but clearly drawing from the world of the earlier series which I have not read. That made some of the worldbuilding and the magic system tricky to figure out (like Kazi seeing Death and hearing ghosts, which is not huge plot point despite how it sounds). The romance was fine and the characters were fine - I liked Kazi much more than Jase, and wished we had gotten more of her as a thief and gotten to see more of three main women as Rahtan. Jase’s family was interesting and I did like the writings from Grayson and the world right after the Destruction. But it just didn’t quite click for me.