A review by daffz
The Child Thief by Dan Smith

4.0

The Child Thief wasn't a book I had on my TBR, I pretty much picked it at random in the library. Sometimes I'm the type of person who can get too bogged down in what I feel like I should be reading and treating my TBR list as a to-do list. So picking a book without knowing much about it and without having planned to read it for ages is something I don't do a lot. In this case it was a good decision, as The Child Thief gripped me and held my attention in a way not many books do. It's very tense and grim, but not without hope. I really enjoyed the setting and time period even though I didn't actually know a lot about either. That made it hard to follow at times, but not enough to stop me from enjoying the well-constructed plot.