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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...

Clear Your Shit: Campfire and new friends (Scary)

It turns out that there's a lot of people on this quest. So many that when we were ready to stop for the night we found a cluster of campfires in an impromptu tent village. Everyone was on the same quest as we were. We joined one of the fires and started telling scary stories. I read a few out of Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James, but we decided that the occasionally actually creepy story wasn't worth the old-timey racism and I didn't finish the book. 

Now we'll have to sleep tonight... yay, no problem at all, sleeping... after that. In the woods. With a bunch of strangers around, just out of the light of the slowly dimming fire. 

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