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4.51 AVERAGE
4.51 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
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
How to approach this review?
I came to this series late. All six books had been published over a 20-year period and I was lucky enough to pick up the first book only this year with the entire series available to me. I started reading these books because I had a very rough few years, the world has had a rough few years, and everything has felt so dark and heavy. At the same time, I ended up reading a lot of heavier books, and it was all starting to weigh on me. I needed something to escape - I needed something fun. The books were both immensely fun and heavy, but at all times left me feeling warm and happy to have come to this world and experienced the stories of these characters. Eugenides is one of my all-time favourite characters, and I suspect a favourite for most people who read this series, but it's not just him that kept bringing me back. It was each of the characters, the relationships between them, the masterful writing, and the complex world.
This book had not been the long anticipated wait that it was for so many people, but it was the culmination of an incredible journey through this world that Turner has created. This book lived up to all expectations. It was told from the perspective of a new character, but the character is a silent observer to the point that you sometimes forget that this is still a limited perspective novel. This book is much longer than any of the others, deals with some heavier topics, and a full war, and ties up many of the plot lines and conflicts that have been building up throughout the series. But it also contains so much love, joy, and fun! It is so beautiful in how it contains that multitude.
I laughed, I cried, I devoured the book. I am both so thrilled with the ending our characters got and so sad that this is now goodbye.
Thank you for this series - I really think it came into my life when I needed it and I am so thankful to now revisit it whenever I need to escape and feel a big comforting hug.
What a gift these books have been.
I came to this series late. All six books had been published over a 20-year period and I was lucky enough to pick up the first book only this year with the entire series available to me. I started reading these books because I had a very rough few years, the world has had a rough few years, and everything has felt so dark and heavy. At the same time, I ended up reading a lot of heavier books, and it was all starting to weigh on me. I needed something to escape - I needed something fun. The books were both immensely fun and heavy, but at all times left me feeling warm and happy to have come to this world and experienced the stories of these characters. Eugenides is one of my all-time favourite characters, and I suspect a favourite for most people who read this series, but it's not just him that kept bringing me back. It was each of the characters, the relationships between them, the masterful writing, and the complex world.
This book had not been the long anticipated wait that it was for so many people, but it was the culmination of an incredible journey through this world that Turner has created. This book lived up to all expectations. It was told from the perspective of a new character, but the character is a silent observer to the point that you sometimes forget that this is still a limited perspective novel. This book is much longer than any of the others, deals with some heavier topics, and a full war, and ties up many of the plot lines and conflicts that have been building up throughout the series. But it also contains so much love, joy, and fun! It is so beautiful in how it contains that multitude.
I laughed, I cried, I devoured the book. I am both so thrilled with the ending our characters got and so sad that this is now goodbye.
Thank you for this series - I really think it came into my life when I needed it and I am so thankful to now revisit it whenever I need to escape and feel a big comforting hug.
What a gift these books have been.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
inspiring
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:
No
Not a word wasted, nor a stone left unturned - a thrilling and satisfying conclusion to one of my favorite series
I think I’ll go back and give each book 5 stars now.
Megan Whalen Turner writes a proper fantasy. This series is such a fantastic and well compiled world that sweeps you into its religion, politics, and conniving plots. Technically this is a YA novel but the characters are older and ambiguous enough that I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a fantasy series despite age. The characters are witty and horrid and wonderful. Sometimes you’re in on their plots and other times you’re trying to solve what they’ve done well after it’s happened. This was a beautiful final installment that had me weeping at the end.
I will say, the first book roped me in enough to read the second and by then I was too deep to stop. The third, made me love them all even more and then the rest were like seeing familiar friends.
I 10/10 recommend the audio as Scott West is an amazing narrator who made me hate reading it on my own. (They’re all on hoopla! (Ebooks & audio)). I feel lonely without the audio books as a constant background.
Megan Whalen Turner writes a proper fantasy. This series is such a fantastic and well compiled world that sweeps you into its religion, politics, and conniving plots. Technically this is a YA novel but the characters are older and ambiguous enough that I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a fantasy series despite age. The characters are witty and horrid and wonderful. Sometimes you’re in on their plots and other times you’re trying to solve what they’ve done well after it’s happened. This was a beautiful final installment that had me weeping at the end.
I will say, the first book roped me in enough to read the second and by then I was too deep to stop. The third, made me love them all even more and then the rest were like seeing familiar friends.
I 10/10 recommend the audio as Scott West is an amazing narrator who made me hate reading it on my own. (They’re all on hoopla! (Ebooks & audio)). I feel lonely without the audio books as a constant background.
If I wasn't listening to this while at work, I would have bawled in the final few chapters.
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-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
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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
Pheris, the young grandson of treacherous Baron Erondites, is physically disabled and mute, which makes people assume he's mentally disabled. He is not. When the baron sends him to court, he becomes friends with Eugenides. The book is from Pheris' POV, in and around the castle, and later when Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis go to war against the Mede. Pheris is very lovable and it's always fun to root for an underdog. A really good finish to the series.
10/10 | The only bad thing about this book is that it marks the end of the Queen’s Thief Series and I would have loved to have more of it
Yet another new character, and a very fun one. He doesn't speak, everyone thinks he's incapable of understanding much, and so he gets away with a lot. Meanwhile, everybody's story lines are wrapped up, most of our old faves (at least that have survived to this book) get a good scene or two, and Eugenides continues to... be him. A pretty satisfying wrap up to a 6 book, geographically vast saga. Even for somebody like me who gets really bored when we have to read about troop movements and battles instead of relationships and hijinks.