The Good Thief
by:
Hannah Tinti (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385337458 (0385337450)
Publish date: August 26th 2008
Publisher: The Dial Press
Pages no: 327
Edition language: English
This was an airplane book for me, and for that purpose it was a fine one: a quickly paced adventure story, reminiscent of Stevenson or Dickens. In the end, I felt it strained credibility and toed the absurd much more than I care for, & of course my most common complaint of ultimately flat characters...
set in america in some unnamed time that feels... victorian? it definitely feels british. but it's not. kept expecting magic to happen. but it didn't. it's a finely told story of an orphan. things get more and more absurd and violent the longer the book goes on, and each episode/adventure hints at a...
set in america in some unnamed time that feels... victorian? it definitely feels british. but it's not. kept expecting magic to happen. but it didn't. it's a finely told story of an orphan. things get more and more absurd and violent the longer the book goes on, and each episode/adventure hints at a...
This was a random pick from the library because the cover caught my eye. I'm glad it did — Hannah Tinti's debut novel is very readable, and superior to most YA fiction, but part of its problem is that the author couldn't seem to quite decide whether this was YA or not. You will see a lot of reviewer...
Finishing this book has left me in quite a predicament. I feel the need to write a review for this book even though it didn’t particularly leave me feeling anything but ‘meh’. If I were more invested in this type of story, I’d say that this book offended me with all the ways that the characters and ...
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