Magic of Thieves C Greenwood 9781481093781 Books
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In a province where magic is forbidden and its possessors are murdered by the cruel Praetor, young Ilan, born with the powerful gift of her ancestors, has only one hope for survival. Concealment. In the shadow of Dimmingwood, she finds temporary protection with a band of forest brigands led by the infamous outlaw Rideon the Red Hand.
But as Ilan matures, learns the skills of survival, and struggles to master the inherent magic of her dying race, danger is always close behind. When old enemies reappear and new friendships lead to betrayal, will her discovery of an enchanted bow prove to be Ilan's final salvation or her ultimate downfall?
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Also in the LEGENDS OF DIMMINGWOOD series
Betrayal of Thieves ~ Book II
Circle of Thieves ~ Book III
Redemption of Thieves ~ Book IV
Journey of Thieves ~ Book V
Rule of Thieves ~ Book VI (Coming soon)
Magic of Thieves C Greenwood 9781481093781 Books
I've read my share of fantasy, from excellent to mind-bogglingly awful. And while this one doesn't rank so high up on the list of "fantasy I'd rather burn and use as tinder", it certainly belongs there. It's a really, really badly written book, so bad that the author should be questioned on two things: the writing level and the level of the author's maturity.The plot is faintly reminiscent of Ronia the Robber's Daughter by the famed children's author, Astrid Lindgren; a daughter of magic-wielding parents survive the scourge and joins a bandit den, under the fostering of one father-figure. She eventually meets a boy aspiring to be a priest. Stuff happens. They grow. A raid inevitably occurs. The father-figure, who, by this time, the protagonist holds in contempt - and insults and hurts at every given opportunity - dies in the raid. The girl immediately stops worshipping the den leader, betrays the boy she had grown up with (and, in his good heart, has done everything she asked him to), and leaved the bandit camp, because it's "time to get off the path".
UGH.
The prose is choppy and juvenile. Considering that the narrator is a teenager, I suppose that's one technique. What infuriated me - and will permanently inhibit me from reading book 2, 3, 4, 5, or any of the future releases - is just amazingly horrible the protagonist is. Okay, she's a teenager. But I was a teenager as well, and never - I repeat, never - had I been this awful to anyone, this spiteful, and this wishy-washy, whilst believing myself to be the epitome of "epic toughness", as modern-day boys would call it. She really embodies Hamlet's "frailty, thy name is woman".
Point number 1. The boy she grows up with is really a kind-hearted boy; refuses violence, refuses to lie, teaches her how to read. She constantly mocks and belittles him, thinking that would make her tougher. Do note that not once does she feel she is inferior to any of the bandits for anything, so this belittling isn't to make up for some inferiority complex, it's just meanness. She calls him a coward, calls him names, tells him just how inept he is and then proceeds to order him about. Now, my question is, if he really is inept, why let him do anything? He's bound to fail the task anyway. Which leaves the conclusion - she really is just mocking him for the sake of it. But that doesn't preclude her from checking out his abs. And in the end, she betrays him to the enemy, and goes, "well, he's dumb anyway". Is the author someone like her to be able to write her like this? Because I felt irritated just reading about her, so I'd be raging if I had to WRITE about her.
Point number 2. Her father-figure is a kind man. A man with mistakes, but nevertheless kind. At one point she hits his weak point - his almost fatally weak point - and she feels the trust is gone. So what does she do? Belittle him at every chance. Mock him at any given opportunity, despite his continued kindness. She then cries over all the mocking she's done when he's dead, yells at the aforementioned boy when he points out that her father-figure was a brigand, and that those who killed him was just doing the job (as he was killed by the law enforcers). Right. The enforcers are bad guys for killing someone who has robbed innocent travellers of all their livelihoods and killed them as well.
Point number 3. Throughout 80% of the book, the protagonist fawns over the bandit leader. The bandit leader is quite possibly yours truly generic stock bandit leader character - no morals, abusive and aggressive, and probably a sociopath - and she constantly looks to him, so much so that one of the bandits casually comments that she licks his boots. So when this much-admired bandit leader forbids anyone to go chasing after the law enforcers who raided and killed his men - he knew they were dead anyway, and the camp was in danger - what does she do? GO CHASE AFTER THEM. Oh, and then she packs up and leaves the camp, never mind that the camp has fed her and clothed her all these years. She apparently hasn't thought anything about leaving the boy behind to face the fallout.
She is selfishness and thoughtlessness and cruelty and idiocy personified. I'm amazed anyone would WANT to read about her after this. She can't even bootlick properly. I would have ripped the book apart in my fury, but alas it was on Kindle. I've been plenty angry at characters before but this one takes the cake. Seriously, I have never hoped for the main character to die some gruesome, miserable death in the middle of the book... until this one. I was hoping she'd fall in the ditch and break her neck. I hate this girl that much.
Don't be fooled by the "omg amazing!" reviews here. Go check out the reviews at goodreads, and judge the book for yourself. It's free, so no harm to your wallet; the worst would be you raging and writing an angry review (like I did).
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Magic of Thieves C Greenwood 9781481093781 Books Reviews
This book looked so good at first and when I saw in the store, for free, mind you, I decided to get it. It looked so good!! That's why I was so upset when it went downhill from after about the first chapter. (Loud drawn out sigh) I didn't even bother to read the reviews before I got this book and now I really wish I did because I agree wholeheartedly with everything the other victims of this horrible book said. I did like the way it started, with the main character as a young girl meeting the bandits but after that it all went down the drain. In the present, where the main character is 14, it turns out that she grew up to be a first rate bitch! Not only does she continually insult and degrade the bandit who gave her a place but she basically betrays the only person that will be friends with her after thinking that he is super hot without a shirt on. Also... ummm, where's the magic? I was persuaded into getting this book with promises of magic/a magic bow. Right, so, magic is only mentioned twice and the main character chick (I can't even remember her name) only finds the bow after she "rescues" her super hot guy friend that really doesn't even like her and clings to her like a lost, abandoned puppy because no one likes HIM... C. Greenwood could be a politician with all her empty promises any white lies all tied together in a nice little box! Jeez. This just goes to prove that you get what you pay for and sometimes something a little bit worse!
I had high hopes for this book based on previous reviews, hundreds of them, mostly five star. One of the first things they teach you in any creative writing course is to not just tell the readers what's going on, but to show it. It's one of the most basic principles of good storytelling. It's also one of the most difficult to do. Unfortunately, this author, like many other self-published authors, has a difficult time with this.
I've found myself reading a lot of self-published books on over the last couple of years, and I have become somewhat used to the amateurishness of the dialogue, and can often overlook it. What I really have trouble with in this novel is the plot, or lack of thereof. It starts off great, a little cliche, but great. Then.... nothing. I'm almost done with the novel and I'm still waiting for something, anything, to happen. But nothing ever does.
Read this book because it was free. Do not pay money for it. First...it is really only half of a book- not even 200 pages long- broken up with a cliff hanger at the 'end' to get you to buy the 2nd book which is really the 2nd half of what should be one book.Writing is ok but rather heavy handed with explaining things to the reader instead of showing things through actions or conversations. *Hint - if you have to explain the story to your readers, you did not do a good job on the story.
I've read my share of fantasy, from excellent to mind-bogglingly awful. And while this one doesn't rank so high up on the list of "fantasy I'd rather burn and use as tinder", it certainly belongs there. It's a really, really badly written book, so bad that the author should be questioned on two things the writing level and the level of the author's maturity.
The plot is faintly reminiscent of Ronia the Robber's Daughter by the famed children's author, Astrid Lindgren; a daughter of magic-wielding parents survive the scourge and joins a bandit den, under the fostering of one father-figure. She eventually meets a boy aspiring to be a priest. Stuff happens. They grow. A raid inevitably occurs. The father-figure, who, by this time, the protagonist holds in contempt - and insults and hurts at every given opportunity - dies in the raid. The girl immediately stops worshipping the den leader, betrays the boy she had grown up with (and, in his good heart, has done everything she asked him to), and leaved the bandit camp, because it's "time to get off the path".
UGH.
The prose is choppy and juvenile. Considering that the narrator is a teenager, I suppose that's one technique. What infuriated me - and will permanently inhibit me from reading book 2, 3, 4, 5, or any of the future releases - is just amazingly horrible the protagonist is. Okay, she's a teenager. But I was a teenager as well, and never - I repeat, never - had I been this awful to anyone, this spiteful, and this wishy-washy, whilst believing myself to be the epitome of "epic toughness", as modern-day boys would call it. She really embodies Hamlet's "frailty, thy name is woman".
Point number 1. The boy she grows up with is really a kind-hearted boy; refuses violence, refuses to lie, teaches her how to read. She constantly mocks and belittles him, thinking that would make her tougher. Do note that not once does she feel she is inferior to any of the bandits for anything, so this belittling isn't to make up for some inferiority complex, it's just meanness. She calls him a coward, calls him names, tells him just how inept he is and then proceeds to order him about. Now, my question is, if he really is inept, why let him do anything? He's bound to fail the task anyway. Which leaves the conclusion - she really is just mocking him for the sake of it. But that doesn't preclude her from checking out his abs. And in the end, she betrays him to the enemy, and goes, "well, he's dumb anyway". Is the author someone like her to be able to write her like this? Because I felt irritated just reading about her, so I'd be raging if I had to WRITE about her.
Point number 2. Her father-figure is a kind man. A man with mistakes, but nevertheless kind. At one point she hits his weak point - his almost fatally weak point - and she feels the trust is gone. So what does she do? Belittle him at every chance. Mock him at any given opportunity, despite his continued kindness. She then cries over all the mocking she's done when he's dead, yells at the aforementioned boy when he points out that her father-figure was a brigand, and that those who killed him was just doing the job (as he was killed by the law enforcers). Right. The enforcers are bad guys for killing someone who has robbed innocent travellers of all their livelihoods and killed them as well.
Point number 3. Throughout 80% of the book, the protagonist fawns over the bandit leader. The bandit leader is quite possibly yours truly generic stock bandit leader character - no morals, abusive and aggressive, and probably a sociopath - and she constantly looks to him, so much so that one of the bandits casually comments that she licks his boots. So when this much-admired bandit leader forbids anyone to go chasing after the law enforcers who raided and killed his men - he knew they were dead anyway, and the camp was in danger - what does she do? GO CHASE AFTER THEM. Oh, and then she packs up and leaves the camp, never mind that the camp has fed her and clothed her all these years. She apparently hasn't thought anything about leaving the boy behind to face the fallout.
She is selfishness and thoughtlessness and cruelty and idiocy personified. I'm amazed anyone would WANT to read about her after this. She can't even bootlick properly. I would have ripped the book apart in my fury, but alas it was on . I've been plenty angry at characters before but this one takes the cake. Seriously, I have never hoped for the main character to die some gruesome, miserable death in the middle of the book... until this one. I was hoping she'd fall in the ditch and break her neck. I hate this girl that much.
Don't be fooled by the "omg amazing!" reviews here. Go check out the reviews at goodreads, and judge the book for yourself. It's free, so no harm to your wallet; the worst would be you raging and writing an angry review (like I did).
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