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by D.B. Jackson
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Aren's Library
Aren's Library rated it 8 years ago
Enjoyed this a lot, very interesting series and combination of historical fiction and fantasy.
Tammie's Reading Reviews
Tammie's Reading Reviews rated it 10 years ago
I started reading Thieftaker but I just can't really get into it. The story is just meh and so are the characters. It also kind of bothers me that the main character is still in love with a former flame, but sleeping with someone else. It also bothers me that he seems to either be loyal to the crown...
Book Reviews by Lynn
Book Reviews by Lynn rated it 11 years ago
Boston, 1765: The British Crown imposes onerous taxes on the thirteen colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. For Ethan Kaille, a conjurer who makes his living tracking down thieves, politics is for others...until he is asked to recover a necklace w...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 11 years ago
“Thieftaker” is not just a modern urban noir supernatural detective story dressed up in a period costume, it is driven by the events and the mindset of the period, which gives it a distinctive and intriguing flavour. It is driven as much by character as by plot. Our hero is not an easy man to be n...
Foggygirl
Foggygirl rated it 11 years ago
A great read! I actually got this book out of my local library and loved it enough that I went and bought my own copy and also bought the second installment as well. It is a well written and faced paced tale of murder and magic in Boston in the years leading up to the American Revolution. I look...
AnimeJune's Obsessions
AnimeJune's Obsessions rated it 11 years ago
digitaltempest
digitaltempest rated it 12 years ago
Review later.
Jamie's Book Blog
Jamie's Book Blog rated it 12 years ago
First of all I want to state that D.B. Jackson AKA David B. Coe is one of my favorite fantasy authors. I got into his books when I chanced upon the first book in his Winds of the Forelands series and bought the rest immediatly. If you haven't read them then do so, you will love them. David B. Coe fi...
traciloudin
traciloudin rated it 12 years ago
This book is definitely multifaceted: historical fiction blended with fantasy, crime / mystery / noir, plus a dash of romance.This works well as long as you like all the genres mentioned above. The only thing that wasn't working for me was the crime novel propensity to carefully describe the hair an...
Seeford's Spot
Seeford's Spot rated it 12 years ago
The author name is a pseudonym for the fantasy author David B. Coe.
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