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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
3.5 Stars
So right off the bat we have two pretty good characters Kyra and Tristam. Kyra is a thief one of the best that anyone has ever seen and due to certain circumstances she winds up being part of the Assassins Guild run by James who we met in Poison Dance the prequel. Then there is Tristam who is a Knight and he ends up losing a very close friend of his to the Demon Riders and due to that is set out to get revenge and justice for his friend.
It took me a minute to get into the book about the thirty percent mark to be exact until then I was slightly bored but once things got going I couldn't put the book down.
What I liked the most about Midnight Thief was the dual point of views, I feel like I get to know both the main characters that much better and honestly if it wasn't for the dual pov and if we saw everything from Kyra's perspective I probably wouldn't have liked Tristam as much it was his inner thoughts and struggle that made him a bit more interesting. There was also a little bit of romance brewing between Tristam and Kyra which honestly I didn't care much for it was pretty blah although I'm hoping things will heat up more between the two in the next book.
Also we get more of James obviously with him being the guild leader but what kind of put me off was that when we met him in Poison Dance he was such a different person and in Midnight Thief he is this wicked heartless man who doesn't care who he hurts including children and it just didn't make sense. I'm wondering what happened to him to make him change so much. I mean I really hated the man in this book while I loved him in the prequel.
Midnight Thief has a lot of twists and turns and Kyra ends up surprising everyone including herself when we learn about who she really is, personally I never saw it coming. I only wish that the history of her kind was explored more I mean to me she is still a big mystery one that I can't wait to be solved. I also really found myself rooting for Kyra it seemed like everyone was trying to use her for their own purposes.
Overall this was a good start to a new series and even though things wrapped up at the end without some insane cliffhanger I still am curious about quite a few things and I am finding myself wanting to know what is going to happen next with Kyra and even Tristam.
So right off the bat we have two pretty good characters Kyra and Tristam. Kyra is a thief one of the best that anyone has ever seen and due to certain circumstances she winds up being part of the Assassins Guild run by James who we met in Poison Dance the prequel. Then there is Tristam who is a Knight and he ends up losing a very close friend of his to the Demon Riders and due to that is set out to get revenge and justice for his friend.
It took me a minute to get into the book about the thirty percent mark to be exact until then I was slightly bored but once things got going I couldn't put the book down.
What I liked the most about Midnight Thief was the dual point of views, I feel like I get to know both the main characters that much better and honestly if it wasn't for the dual pov and if we saw everything from Kyra's perspective I probably wouldn't have liked Tristam as much it was his inner thoughts and struggle that made him a bit more interesting. There was also a little bit of romance brewing between Tristam and Kyra which honestly I didn't care much for it was pretty blah although I'm hoping things will heat up more between the two in the next book.
Also we get more of James obviously with him being the guild leader but what kind of put me off was that when we met him in Poison Dance he was such a different person and in Midnight Thief he is this wicked heartless man who doesn't care who he hurts including children and it just didn't make sense. I'm wondering what happened to him to make him change so much. I mean I really hated the man in this book while I loved him in the prequel.
Midnight Thief has a lot of twists and turns and Kyra ends up surprising everyone including herself when we learn about who she really is, personally I never saw it coming. I only wish that the history of her kind was explored more I mean to me she is still a big mystery one that I can't wait to be solved. I also really found myself rooting for Kyra it seemed like everyone was trying to use her for their own purposes.
Overall this was a good start to a new series and even though things wrapped up at the end without some insane cliffhanger I still am curious about quite a few things and I am finding myself wanting to know what is going to happen next with Kyra and even Tristam.
I really liked this series actually. I picked it up looking for an easy read and I ended up really getting into it
I loved the main character and the world building so much. I thought the plot was predicable at point but i loved the world building. hope to read the sequel soon.
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
En pocas palabras... MARAVILLOSO.
La historia te envuelve desde el primero párrafo. El que Kyra esté en el gremio, lo que pasa por estar dentro.
Juro que por algunos capítulos me ilusioné con la idea de ella con James, incluso yo misma dije que lo elegiría por encima de Tristam pero… ¡Me lo cambió todo! ;Q;
Varias partes me hicieron llorar, y al llegar al final, DIOS.
No sé, me gustó mucho, los cambia formas… los amo.
Me leeré “Poison dance” y a ver qué tal, espero no sufrir por James.
¡Espero con muchas ansias poder leer el segundo!
La historia te envuelve desde el primero párrafo. El que Kyra esté en el gremio, lo que pasa por estar dentro.
Juro que por algunos capítulos me ilusioné con la idea de ella con James, incluso yo misma dije que lo elegiría por encima de Tristam pero… ¡Me lo cambió todo! ;Q;
Varias partes me hicieron llorar, y al llegar al final, DIOS.
No sé, me gustó mucho, los cambia formas… los amo.
Me leeré “Poison dance” y a ver qué tal, espero no sufrir por James.
¡Espero con muchas ansias poder leer el segundo!
As I read through all the reviews of this book before reading I was worried. You see I received this book for free from a community Christmas event. I read the first line and thought "oh god this is going to be so cheesy and I'll hate it." But that was not the case. I don't give a damn what other people think. This book singlehandedly got me into reading again. The clear descriptions, the romance and even the main characters screw ups. I loved it all and have read the book more than once and have not been disappointed at all by it. Thank you for writing such an amazing book Livia. Keep writing and never let a few bad reviews get to you.Oh and keep in mind I got the book Christmas day I was so obsessed it only took me five days to finish.
A bit mediocre for high fantasy. Still holding out hope for Kyra and James though.
Reviewed by: Rabid Reads
Before I read MIDNIGHT THIEF, I took the advice of various and sundry others, and read the prequel, POISON DANCE, and I really liked it. Having since read the book, I'm going to hazard a guess that the point of the prequel was to, if not make a sympathetic character out of MIDNIGHT THIEF's villain, then to at least explain why he was the way he was.
But it didn't quite work that way for me.
I feel like I've said this recently, so if I'm repeating myself, I apologize, but in real life, we make allowances for people based on their life experiences: what they've been through, how they've suffered, etc.
In a book . . . maybe it's all the same for you, but I'm not much interested in the characters who have turned into meek, little mouse-things, b/c they can't handle what life has dealt them, or in this case, the character who has turned into a bitter and manipulative, cold bastard, b/c someone from the upper classes did him wrong.
For a character to be redeemable, he has to show that he possesses (<------present tense) the tiniest shred of humanity. Who cares that he used to be an okay guy, but then life happened, so here we are?
Not me. #sorrynotsorry *shrugs*
Kyra is a thief. She's a thief who gets recruited by the Master of the Assassins' Guild (James) to . . . well, she doesn't need to worry her pretty, little head about that. He'll tell her when she needs to know.
*frowns*
Initially, I didn't think it was strange for the Assassins' Guild to headhunt a thief--they're all criminals, right?--but by the end . . . I felt I should have been more suspicious. I can't decide if I should fault Kyra for making the same mistake, BUT you'd expect someone who grew up on the streets to be a bit more savvy.
And she is reluctant.
Ultimately the decision to join the Guild is made after a series of events, that even as they were happening, I couldn't help but wonder, if James had set the whole thing up. Or at the very least, laid in wait until an opportunity presented itself. I still don't know, but it was carefully orchestrated by someone--James or Blackburne, take your pick.
In fact, the entire story felt carefully orchestrated.
Kyra is an orphan and doesn't have much in the way of even an adopted family: Bella is a mother figure who lost her only child at sea, and Flick, the several-years-older-than-her bastard son of a nobleman, who inexplicably took an interest in her when she was child. There are also two street children she's bonded with, b/c they remind her of herself at that age.
But there is no gang of rough and tumble we-grew-up-on-the-streets-together friends for life.
And that's not really surprising, b/c Kyra is the most noble of thieves . . . so noble that it's hard to imagine her having any friends at all. I can't see her moral high ground being a crowd favorite when they're all hanging out in their street rat clubhouse.
She's also painstakingly crafted to be a victim of circumstance: Kyra is only a thief, b/c 1. she was starving and had to do something to feed herself, and 2. her almost unbelievable cat-like reflexes, balance, fearlessness, etc. It's almost like thievery was her only option, so who could possibly blame her?
Carefully. Orchestrated.
I had to keep reminding myself that Kyra was a thief, not an assassin, when her adamant refusals to expand her criminal repertoire started making my eyes twitch. Don't misunderstand, it's not that I wanted her to go on a killing spree or something, but her protests were so . . . self-righteous: "I don't mind hanging out and working with assassins, and I desperately want their respect and acceptance, but don't you dare ask me to be one, b/c I'm better than that,"
I don't care if she's still half human as well, how do you expect me to believe that she got ALL of the physical perks: agility, balance, enhanced hearing and vision, etc., but none of the bloodlust?
And not just an absence of bloodlust, but an abhorrence of it.
Really? *frowns and squints*
The further I got into the book, the more it felt like it was following a predetermined formula. Kyra, who I initially liked, became more and more two-dimensional. She was like one of Nimue's paintings that lacked life from Hunting Ground, Alpha and Omega #2 by Patricia Briggs. The other characters were the same.
I saw every plot twist a mile away, and the ending was laughably maudlin.
I really wanted to like this book, and for the first 150-200 pages, I thought that I did. But the world-building was superficial--I still have no idea why the Demon Riders migrated to Forge beyond a vague reference to humans poisoning their land. I know that the Head of the Counsel is a stock Noble of the bad variety, but is there a King or a Queen? And the characters . . . I couldn't connect with them. The end.
However, I have been increasingly unimpressed with YA fantasy's recent offerings, and MANY respected friends and bloggers have had a decidedly different take on MIDNIGHT THIEF. Check out Marcela's review at The Bookaholic Cat or Tabitha's review at Not Yet Read for compelling reasons to try this book. Just b/c I didn't like it, doesn't mean you won't. I have been known to be a crankypants.<------true story.
Before I read MIDNIGHT THIEF, I took the advice of various and sundry others, and read the prequel, POISON DANCE, and I really liked it. Having since read the book, I'm going to hazard a guess that the point of the prequel was to, if not make a sympathetic character out of MIDNIGHT THIEF's villain, then to at least explain why he was the way he was.
But it didn't quite work that way for me.
I feel like I've said this recently, so if I'm repeating myself, I apologize, but in real life, we make allowances for people based on their life experiences: what they've been through, how they've suffered, etc.
In a book . . . maybe it's all the same for you, but I'm not much interested in the characters who have turned into meek, little mouse-things, b/c they can't handle what life has dealt them, or in this case, the character who has turned into a bitter and manipulative, cold bastard, b/c someone from the upper classes did him wrong.
For a character to be redeemable, he has to show that he possesses (<------present tense) the tiniest shred of humanity. Who cares that he used to be an okay guy, but then life happened, so here we are?
Not me. #sorrynotsorry *shrugs*
Kyra is a thief. She's a thief who gets recruited by the Master of the Assassins' Guild (James) to . . . well, she doesn't need to worry her pretty, little head about that. He'll tell her when she needs to know.
*frowns*
Initially, I didn't think it was strange for the Assassins' Guild to headhunt a thief--they're all criminals, right?--but by the end . . . I felt I should have been more suspicious. I can't decide if I should fault Kyra for making the same mistake, BUT you'd expect someone who grew up on the streets to be a bit more savvy.
And she is reluctant.
Ultimately the decision to join the Guild is made after a series of events, that even as they were happening, I couldn't help but wonder, if James had set the whole thing up. Or at the very least, laid in wait until an opportunity presented itself. I still don't know, but it was carefully orchestrated by someone--James or Blackburne, take your pick.
In fact, the entire story felt carefully orchestrated.
Kyra is an orphan and doesn't have much in the way of even an adopted family: Bella is a mother figure who lost her only child at sea, and Flick, the several-years-older-than-her bastard son of a nobleman, who inexplicably took an interest in her when she was child. There are also two street children she's bonded with, b/c they remind her of herself at that age.
But there is no gang of rough and tumble we-grew-up-on-the-streets-together friends for life.
And that's not really surprising, b/c Kyra is the most noble of thieves . . . so noble that it's hard to imagine her having any friends at all. I can't see her moral high ground being a crowd favorite when they're all hanging out in their street rat clubhouse.
She's also painstakingly crafted to be a victim of circumstance: Kyra is only a thief, b/c 1. she was starving and had to do something to feed herself, and 2. her almost unbelievable cat-like reflexes, balance, fearlessness, etc. It's almost like thievery was her only option, so who could possibly blame her?
Carefully. Orchestrated.
I had to keep reminding myself that Kyra was a thief, not an assassin, when her adamant refusals to expand her criminal repertoire started making my eyes twitch. Don't misunderstand, it's not that I wanted her to go on a killing spree or something, but her protests were so . . . self-righteous: "I don't mind hanging out and working with assassins, and I desperately want their respect and acceptance, but don't you dare ask me to be one, b/c I'm better than that,"
Spoiler
but when it was FINALLY revealed that she was one of those cat shifters, I just couldn't excuse it anymore.I don't care if she's still half human as well, how do you expect me to believe that she got ALL of the physical perks: agility, balance, enhanced hearing and vision, etc., but none of the bloodlust?
And not just an absence of bloodlust, but an abhorrence of it.
Really? *frowns and squints*
The further I got into the book, the more it felt like it was following a predetermined formula. Kyra, who I initially liked, became more and more two-dimensional. She was like one of Nimue's paintings that lacked life from Hunting Ground, Alpha and Omega #2 by Patricia Briggs. The other characters were the same.
I saw every plot twist a mile away, and the ending was laughably maudlin.
I really wanted to like this book, and for the first 150-200 pages, I thought that I did. But the world-building was superficial--I still have no idea why the Demon Riders migrated to Forge beyond a vague reference to humans poisoning their land. I know that the Head of the Counsel is a stock Noble of the bad variety, but is there a King or a Queen? And the characters . . . I couldn't connect with them. The end.
However, I have been increasingly unimpressed with YA fantasy's recent offerings, and MANY respected friends and bloggers have had a decidedly different take on MIDNIGHT THIEF. Check out Marcela's review at The Bookaholic Cat or Tabitha's review at Not Yet Read for compelling reasons to try this book. Just b/c I didn't like it, doesn't mean you won't. I have been known to be a crankypants.<------true story.