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Book Review: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Following the advice of a friend where books are concerned can be a little risky. There will always be points where your taste and your friend’s tastes do not coincide. (For instance, I had a friend who liked Stephen R. Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant books. I do not. Emphatically.) Therefore, it took me awhile to get around to getting this book.
The Thief is a young adult fantasy novel taking place in a setting that is a great deal like Greece. (The technology level is pre-Industrial, sword and gunpowder.) This is a “low magic” setting; the one character identified as a “magus” is actually a scholar. What magic there is comes in the form of extremely subtle miracles and interaction with the gods. (The author does a really great job of having the gods seem distant and a little alien/beyond human comprehension, but not necessarily “remote.”)
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The Thief is a young adult fantasy novel taking place in a setting that is a great deal like Greece. (The technology level is pre-Industrial, sword and gunpowder.) This is a “low magic” setting; the one character identified as a “magus” is actually a scholar. What magic there is comes in the form of extremely subtle miracles and interaction with the gods. (The author does a really great job of having the gods seem distant and a little alien/beyond human comprehension, but not necessarily “remote.”)
Read the rest on A Wicked Convergence of Circumstances