Book Review by Nur (age 10)

The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief #2)

by Megan Whalen Turner 

Paperback, 362 pages

First Published in 2000 by Greenwillow Books 

Hello I am Nur and today I will be reviewing The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. The Queen of Attolia is the second book in a three book series.

(May contain spoilers. I think. Assume yes. (Read the book! It’s super good!))

I think this book is very well made. The plot is excellent, the characters are amazing, and it’s hilarious.

First, my favourite character is Eugenides, Why? Because I think this character was very intriguing. Eugenides is Eddis’s thief, and he is very good at it. He states that ahem… “I can steal anything! Even with one hand!”.

Personally, there’s this funny part of the book showing that Eugenides is a mischievous, backstabbing, excessive planer, and cheeky to no end. The Thief (aka Eugenides) was feeling rather upset about losing his hand (which happens when the Queen of Attolia catches the Thief). The Magus (an old friend of his, who he meets in The Thief, the first part of this series) comes over and talks to him. His words were “Sitting in here isn’t going to help anything. Maybe you aren’t a Thief anymore, but you could still do something.” The magus patted the thief’s shoulder once but didn’t see how the Thief’s eyes narrowed as he watched him leave.

Then, Eugenides locked himself in his room for a while. He snuck out with a little army. He went to Sounis to “steal” Sounis’s magus. So, what he did was to sneak some of his army onto some ships in Sounis’s harbour and light the barrels of gunpowder in those ships on fire! The he went to the Magus’s room and “stole” the Magus. So, when the Magus woke up from his slumber and saw the thief he immediately asked, “What have you done?”. The thief replied, “Oh nothing yet.”. Then the magus heard an explosion from the harbour and saw the whole harbour on fire. He had no doubt in his mind that that was the thief’s doing. That’s hilarious right!

The only thing that I disliked about this book is that it’s kind of hard to understand. But I don’t think that’s the books fault entirely. This book was recommended for kids much older than me. but I promise you that when you pick up this series of books you will not be able to put them down! I recommend this for kids that are book worms or kids 12 or older. I give this book a 10 out 10 rating. This is Nur signing out.