Reviews

The Assassin Thief by Madeline Te Whiu

serrendippiet's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

whoisajax's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

FORMAT:  Paperback
 WHY: Bookclub choice for February support local writer
 THOUGHTS: Loved the main independent female character.  I felt like it was alot of my favourite books and themes put into one story so that was pretty cool.
 RECOMMENDED: For anyone that loves Fae stories with a twist

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death

annelii's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

3.5

emmajean_penn's review

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

4.0

melissajkincaid's review

5.0

I was incredibly lucky to win a signed copy of this book from the Publisher, New Dawn. Thank you so so much.

I. LOVED. IT!

What a kick butt debut! Madeline’s writing was cinematic, the action scenes painted so vividly in my head. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was right up my alley with a snarky, strong female lead, Fae and an interesting magic system.

But can I just say… the ending!! Maddie, you ripped out my heart and sucked out my soul like a Life-Thief! What a huge twist, it was definitely something I didn’t see coming.

scarlettroseis's review against another edition

3.0

I spent a good chunk of this book thinking it was about vampires. I’m still not sure.

sarahaliyah's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

nicisfictionaddiction's review

adventurous dark funny informative mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

solaris33's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

I wish I could love this book. Genuinely. It’s got such an amazing premise but overall I found it grating. There was no chemistry between the FMC and MMC at all and she just follows him into another country with exactly zero backgrounds checks. I can what the author wanted to do and what she wanted Tellium to be, but reading this book felt flat. There wasn’t any chemistry between any of the characters and it often felt like Tellium was 2 seperate people. The first being funny and sarcastic, the second being dark and gloomy and traumatised. 

I really liked the twist but everything else in the book let me down. Like her powers are ridiculously OP and aren’t even described properly. I don’t know how the author is going to drag this out for multiple books if I’m being honest. 


I don’t know how this got through so many rounds of people in a publishing firm but they’ve really let her down and I’m so upset for the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Rape and Abortion

Minor: Slavery, Torture, and Sexism

nessquick91's review

DNF