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Return of the Thief
Oct. 6th, 2020 04:47 pmReturn of the Thief, Megan Whalen Turner, sixth and final book in the Queen's Thief series.
No spoilers in the first paragraph; definitely spoilers in the later paragraphs behind the cut.
I didn't start reading these books from the first one, I mean, I read it first, but the second one was out by then, so, sometime in the early 2000s. The way I remember it - and this might be a totally fictionalized memory - I picked the second one up off of Kyla's bookshelves (at her parents' house, so, 2001 or later and before she was living somewhere else, which is probably a clue she could use to see whether this makes any sense at all), and she more or less took it out of my hands saying yes I definitely had to read those but I absolutely couldn't even read the back cover of that one until I had read the first one. No, seriously, do not read the blurbs, do not read the inside front covers, book text only, and so of course I followed instructions and am glad I did. This was at a point when things were not so great with grad school, and that's part of what this series means to me, that it came with me all the way from *that*, to the third one coming out when I was at Seahorse and not yet *not* at Seahorse, the fourth one when Junie was a baby, the fifth one in 2017, when I wrote "I read a book so good that everything in the world feels okay right now." (So... spanning more or less my entire adult life.) Here in 2020, I can't say that any book could make everything in the world feel okay, but I did get to spend the day in a different world. And, hey, whatever else happens next, which I can hardly even venture to imagine at this point in 2020, at least I got to read this book.
SPOILERS, NO REALLY, SPOILERS, MAJOR SPOILERS: ( Read more... )
No spoilers in the first paragraph; definitely spoilers in the later paragraphs behind the cut.
I didn't start reading these books from the first one, I mean, I read it first, but the second one was out by then, so, sometime in the early 2000s. The way I remember it - and this might be a totally fictionalized memory - I picked the second one up off of Kyla's bookshelves (at her parents' house, so, 2001 or later and before she was living somewhere else, which is probably a clue she could use to see whether this makes any sense at all), and she more or less took it out of my hands saying yes I definitely had to read those but I absolutely couldn't even read the back cover of that one until I had read the first one. No, seriously, do not read the blurbs, do not read the inside front covers, book text only, and so of course I followed instructions and am glad I did. This was at a point when things were not so great with grad school, and that's part of what this series means to me, that it came with me all the way from *that*, to the third one coming out when I was at Seahorse and not yet *not* at Seahorse, the fourth one when Junie was a baby, the fifth one in 2017, when I wrote "I read a book so good that everything in the world feels okay right now." (So... spanning more or less my entire adult life.) Here in 2020, I can't say that any book could make everything in the world feel okay, but I did get to spend the day in a different world. And, hey, whatever else happens next, which I can hardly even venture to imagine at this point in 2020, at least I got to read this book.
SPOILERS, NO REALLY, SPOILERS, MAJOR SPOILERS: ( Read more... )
