Book Review

The Queen of Attolia
by Megan Whalen Turner

This is the second book in the Thief series, and it's a very different book in some ways. It's a lot deeper and, at least for me, had a lot more emotional resonance. I had very different feelings towards Eugenides - he became more to me than the fun, brash, adventurous youth of The Thief. I felt so much more sympathy for him and involvement with him. Eugenides really moved me - his actions, his feelings and thoughts, his development. I'm sure some of this has to do with the nature of the traumatic experience he endures at the beginning of the novel (if you know me, you have some idea of how that affected me). The rest of it, though, is just Turner's brilliantly sensitive and nuanced writing.
( I'm going to get a bit spoilery )