The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
When his small mountains country goes to war with the powerful nation of Attolia, Eugenides the thief is faced with his greatest challenge. He must steal a man, he must steal a queen, and he must steal peace.
But his greatest triumph-as well as his greatest loss-can only come if he succeeds in capturing something the Queen of Attolia may have sacrificed long ago.
This is the sequel to The Thief and it surpassed the first both in plot and the way the conclusion came about. In The Thief, Turner spins an entire tale about a thief that's been caught and forced on a mission for a sacred relic, the entire plot is so tightly wound in this mission, that the very few clues to how the story ends got fully buried and the ending came as a total surprise to me and many other readers as well. For many this was a complete turn-off, but it kept me interested in how the next few novels would play out. The Queen of Attolia does not disappoint.
Not only is Attolia and Eddis given more face time, the plot is more involved and also easier to follow. I was far more pleased by this second novel than the first and gladly sunk myself into Turner's fictional world in a way I hadn't been allowed to in the first novel. Even though the next two books have already been published, there were moments where I could delude myself well enough that Eugenides would not live out the story. The most fascinating aspect was how everyone was, in some way, a pawn and a player in their own endings to this novel and overall I was very satisfied.
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