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Magic Of Thieves (2012)

by C. Greenwood(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

C. Greenwood

series

Legends of Dimmingwood

review 1: As I perhaps expected from a YA book, Magic of Thieves is very simply written, with not many long words. While this is not a problem necessarily, I found that it resulted in descriptions and exposition not being particularly vivid.Alongside this, I found the narrative a little ‘clunky’, with sentence structuring feeling a little off to me. When combined with the lack of streamlining put into the dialogue, it makes the whole experience feel a little unnatural. Some of the sentences in the book also contain oxymorons, and the voice of certain characters seems a little changeable too.In terms of storyline, I think that the whole plot is maybe a little ‘easy’ in spite of the fact that not much happens. Part of this is that the protagonist seems very trusting despite he... morer harrowing past, and almost everyone she meets seems to be inherently good to a certain extent. The combination of jarring time jumps, and stunted character development also meant that by the climax of the book, there had been no real sense of her developing caring or meaningful relationships with anyone. As such, this left me feeling a little underwhelmed.In spite of these flaws, I thought it had all the basic ingredients of a good, old-fashioned fantasy story. Overall though, I felt it did not quite live up to its potential.
review 2: I am only giving this 1 star because it couldn't go any lower...I made it through 86% of the book and just couldn't take any more. I have never before read a book with such an unlikable main character. The book had a lot of potential to be great but it felt like the author just couldn't make up their mind on who they wanted their main character to become so the flip flop back and forth on her being nice and innocent to being cruel and uncaring, then finally decided on cruel and uncaring, sadly. Then she starts off with the ability to use magic but then for the rest of the story barely even bothers with finding out more of her abilities and in fact seems to dislike the fact that she has such abilities. That is just a couple of the of the bigger annoyances I found. less

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