The Thief: A Newbery Honor Award Winner: 1 (Queen's Thief)

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After a fight, Sophos explains that Ambiades’s grandfather was a noble who attempted to overthrow the king. The Sky promised to give his thunderbolts to Hephestia but didn’t, so Eugenides stole them on his godly sister’s behalf.

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Sounis is a coastal country, ruled by a king, that amasses its power by warring to take land and property away from its neighbors. There is even a small passage in which Attolis tries to hint about the pockets and Sounis just does not get it, which leads to a classic Gen moment of throwing his wine cup in private frustration.They won’t tell him what it is or where they’re going, but that shouldn’t matter, because can’t Gen steal anything? And finally, there’s Eugenides’ big showdown with all of the Queen’s Guard (including Laecdomon, who actually tries to kill him) to prove his swordsmanship.

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But then, four years later, Turner followed up The Thief with The Queen of Attolia, by laying low her beloved protagonist in the most devastating way. The Tragic Rich Boy’s Backstory: Now off the mountain and in Attolia, the magus warns the boys to keep their mouths shut when around others. But this story isn’t just about Costis and the rest of the Queen’s Guard realizing that their king is more than a figurehead; it’s also about Eugenides being pushed to accept the power of his role.When Eugenides next tells Attolia (whose name is revealed to be Irene) that he loves her, she believes him.

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Whenever you think you’ve caught on to Turner’s cleverness, she mines a new perspective or practices a new bit of narrative sleight-of-hand. Author Megan Whalen Turn has created a highly detailed setting and peopled it with realistic and complicated characters. She too has been seeing visions of the Sacred Mountain erupting, and knows that this is the only way to convince all of her people to move out of Eddis. Eugenides was a gift from the Earth to a childless woodcutter and his wife, and the Earth brought Eugenides gifts of her own as he grows. The Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, dangerous journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception.

The solution, then, is for Eddis to give up her throne—which at first horrifies Sounis, until he learns that this was Eddis’ intention. In addition to its charismatic hero, this story possesses one of the most valuable treasures of all—a twinkling jewel of a surprise ending.

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He warns the magus to move the camp, worried that the water will come back faster, jump the falls, and wash them away.And rather than loan Sounis the gold he needs to fight, Attolis proposes that Sounis pledge his and his country’s loyalty to Attolia. And we haven’t even gotten to how to depict the thorny, complex, sexy-without-being-explicit power dynamics between Attolia and Gen in that book and others. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.