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Series Review - Queen's Thief: A Series by Megan Whalen Turner

Series Reviews discuss at least three books in a series and cover the overarching themes and development of the story across several books. Thank you to Patron Case Aiken who receives a monthly shoutout. Full Audio Here Eugenides, the queen’s thief, can steal anything—or so he says. When his boasting lands him in prison and the king’s magus invites him on a quest to steal a legendary object, he’s in no position to refuse. The magus thinks he has the right tool for the job, but Gen has plans of his own. PUBLISHER: Greenwillow Books LENGTH: 300 to 450 pages per book, there are six books as of spring 2025 AGE: Young Adult GENRE: Fantasy, Romance RECOMMENDED: Highly Queer Rep Summary: Gay/Achillean Secondary Character(s). TITLES IN SERIES The Thief (1996) The Queen of Attolia (2000) The King of Attolia (2006) A Conspiracy of Kings (2010) Thick as Thieves (2017) Return of the Thief (2020) Moira's Pen (2022) Minimal Spoiler Zone Series Premise Queen's Thief begins as the story of one...
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The Giver by Lois Lowry (The Giver Quartet, #1)

The Giver is remarkable for well how it builds a dystopian world by not describing things. Jonas is an unreliable narrator in the manner of someone who has been gaslit, he doesn't know what he doesn't know. I'm very glad to know this has sequels.

I'm keeping my descriptions minimal because talking much at all about so short of a book would spoil major portions of it. Suffice it to say, I liked it, I'm ready to read the rest of the quartet, and it's a dystopia such that the most chilling parts of it lie in the implications of what is missing from Jonas's understanding. It doesn't rely on mystery, exactly, just that as Jonas gains some understanding of what was absent from his life, it implies even more things that he hasn't yet learned were missing.

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