{"id":4722,"date":"2010-04-19T23:29:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2010-04-19T23:29:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:59:04","slug":"take-a-thief-a-novel-of-valdemar-by-mercedes-lackey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/take-a-thief-a-novel-of-valdemar-by-mercedes-lackey\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Thief: A Novel of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n Take a Thief: A Novel of Valdemar
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Description:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Takes a Thief reveals the untold story of Skif- a popular character from Lackey’s first published novel, Arrows of the Queen. Skif is a homeless orphan who lives with a gang of juvenile pickpockets…until he is “Chosen” by one of Valdemar’s magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen…<\/p>\n

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\tReview:<\/b>Take a Thief is a stand alone novel in the world of Valdemar. Like a lot of other novels in the series it focuses on a particular person’s view point to describe a given situation. In ‘Take a Thief’ the person is Skif, who was introduced to us in the very first Valdemar novel (Arrows of the Queen) which coincidentally was the first novel published by Mercedes Lackey.<\/p>\n

This book expands the brief history the reader was told in Arrows. However a few things have been changed in this book as compared to the original telling with not a lot of explanation as to why this was. The only possible way (That I can think of) to explain the difference between that story and this one would be that Skif told a false story about his history so that people didn’t know all the skills he had.<\/p>\n

As for the timeline the book is set somewhere in between Exile’s Valor and the Arrows of the Queen Trilogy. Exile’s valor was published after this one so not a lot of events from that book was referenced to in this one. <\/p>\n

I really like Lackey’s style of writing and her way of describing the life of a dirt poor person without glamorizing it (making them into the noble poor) or making it too gritty and depressing. <\/p>\n

Final recommendation: Great read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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