Books I love: The Thief

I am so re-reading all of Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief books in anticipation of the last book. I’m a bit early in the year since Return of the Thief was supposed to be out this month but has been pushed back to August. (August! I have to wait until August?!)

Why do I love these books so much? I think because Turner seems to have no fear in writing on so many levels. She does things to her characters that I think other authors would shy away from. She takes her characters in unexpected directions, and I believe in them. The first book was YA, but now the series is practically epic fantasy, set in an alternative ancient Greece with guns and pocket watches, when everyone else was writing fake medieval Europe fantasy or American dystopia. And she’s writing non-ensemble heist novels. Is there anyone else doing that? And I don’t see the twist coming, even though I know it’s coming.

Basically I love them because she’s fearless and way smarter than me.