The Queen’s Thief series has been highly recommended, so I put the first book on my list. It begins with Gen, the thief, languishing in the king’s prison; he’s stolen the king’s seal and publicly bragged about it, which landed him not only in prison but in multiple chains. The king’s magus (chief scholar) takes him out to help steal something else, something far away. The first half of the book is actually incredibly boring; it’s basically Gen complaining about having to ride horseback and the small party telling each other dueling tales of origin mythology. The story doesn’t kick into high gear until Gen actually does steal the MacGuffin and the gods turn out to be more than just stories. Nice twist at the end too. This basically functions as an extended prologue to a series that I’m definitely interested in reading, but in itself I’m not that impressed; it could have been sharper and tighter.
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