2025/089: The Thief — Megan Whalen Turner

2025/089: The Thief — Megan Whalen Turner

It was a relief to explain everything to her... what I’d thought of the magus in the beginning and what I thought of him in the end. What it meant to be the focus of the gods’ attention, to be their instrument, used to change the shape of the world. And it was nice to brag a little, too. [p. 218]

A reread: my previous read (review) was in 2009, back when I was still reading print books, and acquiring them from BookMooch, which was able to provide copies of the first and second book in the series -- but not the third, or the fourth that had only just been published. They weren't available in UK editions until a few years ago. Now there are six books; I have purchased two as Kindle deals over the last few years; and all six are available via Kindle Unlimited. Sparked by a setting similar to Ancient Greece (though with definite Byzantine overtones, and more technology: watches, glass windows, rifles) I immersed myself, and have read all six in the space of a week. It has been blissful, and I'm sure I've noticed aspects and elements which would have eluded me if I'd read each volume as it became available.

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