The Magic Thief

This book made me absurdly and enormously happy. The Magic Thief has a number of familiar fantasy motifs and character types. But in Sarah Prineas's hands a story that could have been predictable instead has a wonderful freshness and vitality about it. The invented world in which Conn moves has a Dic......more

Conn is a lock pick and a thief in Wellmet and he is very good at it. One day he picks a wizard's pocket and steals locus magicalicus, an object that every wizard has and if someone else touches it they can get hurt or worse die. But the locus magicalicus doesn't kill Conn and the wizard, Nevery fin......more

Mukavan ilmavasti kirjoitettu, lapsille ja nuorille suunnattu fantasiaseikkailu, jonka luimme lasten kanssa iltasaduksi. Kuulijakunta jaksoi keskittyä, sillä tapahtumia ja mielenkiintoisia hahmoja oli sopivassa määrin. Aluksi meinasi kuulemma mennä nuorimmalta paikat ja tyypit sekaisin, mutta tarina......more

Like L.M. Boston's Green Knowe series, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, C.S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Sarah Prineas' The Magic Thief represents a children's book that's bound to be devoured by thousands of adults. The eponymous thief Conn meets his......more

I read the German translation of this book to my son when he was little. Now I listened to the audio book, and it is just as good as I remember. There is a warmth to it, hard to explain. And Conn is such a free spirit. The narrator did an excellent job, but I did not love his voice for Conn. Still,......more