A review by justinh94
City of Thieves by David Benioff

4.0

Exactly what you want out of a good, hard-working, 250-page novel: well defined characters, a straightforwardly entertaining plot, and plainly elegant prose with just enough poetic bang for your buck. Two Russian survivors have to find a dozen eggs during the German siege of Leningrad or they’ll be killed. Sold. And I’ll be darned if those two crazy kids don’t come of age a little bit along the way!

(If you’re thinking, “There’s no way one of the guys responsible for the last season of Game of Thrones wrote a good novel,” you’d—surprisingly—be wrong!)