Return of the Thief

Megan Whalen Turner

Oct 2020 · Queen's Thief Book 6 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

The thrilling, twenty-years-in-the-making conclusion to the New York Times–bestselling Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner.

The epic novels set in the world of the Queen’s Thief can be read in any order.

This beloved and award-winning series began with the acclaimed novel The Thief. It and four more stand-alone volumes bring to life a world of epics, myths, and legends, and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. Now more powerful and cunning than ever before, Eugenides must navigate a perilous future in this sweeping conclusion. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and Sarah J. Maas.

Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis. As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike.

The New York Times–bestselling Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations, divine intervention, dangerous journeys, battles lost and won, power, passion, and deception. Features a cast list of the characters in the Queen’s Thief novels, as well as two maps—a map of the world of the Queen’s Thief, and a map exclusive to this edition.

“The Queen’s Thief books awe and inspire me. They have the feel of a secret, discovered history of real but forgotten lands. The plot-craft is peerless, the revelations stunning, and the characters flawed, cunning, heartbreaking, exceptional. Megan Whalen Turner’s books have a permanent spot on my favorites shelf, with space waiting for more books to come.”—Laini Taylor, New York Times-bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone novels and Strange the Dreamer

"Unforgettable characters, plot twists that will make your head spin, a world rendered in elegant detail—you will fall in love with every page of these stories. Megan Whalen Turner writes vivid, immersive, heartbreaking fantasy that will leave you desperate to return to Attolia again and again."—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

"Megan Whalen Turner has constructed a clever world filled with suspense and intrigue and characters that will never be forgotten. Once you dive into the world of the Queen's Thief, prepare to have your life stolen from you until you finish them all." —Joelle Charbonneau, New York Times-bestselling author of the Testing trilogy

“Megan Whalen Turner's Queen’s Thief books are like the characters she creates: endlessly entertaining, deeply deceptive, and very, very clever.”—Garth Nix, New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author of the Old Kingdom, Keys to the Kingdom, and Seventh Tower series

Ratings and reviews

probably one of the largest disappointments in my life. I loved this series!! however, much like others I feel as though this book was written by the Fanfiction community. It feels like a fraud. The story was difficult to get enthralled with. So many of the characters seemed out of character. Add to that the weird forced scenes, changing the previous story for the sake of a new plot, and the entire lack of what made the previous books great. I'm not completely abandoning Mrs Turner here. I still love the first books, this one just really felt like it wasn't written for those of us that loved Gen's story before the fanfiction community made it their own. Way to slap your name on a book that everyone else wrote for you.

It was meh. the story felt rushed. A lot of the characters fell flat. I loved the previous books but this wasn't like them. ideas seemed forced and it was hard to connect with the story. some of the plot ruins the plots of previous books. The author contradicted herself twice plot wise. seems like someone else wrote the book. or maybe she just wanted to get it over with so she wrote some stuff. disappointed but I don't fully regret the purchase. It seems like she let the fanfiction community write the book and then took credit for it. literally reads like fanfiction.

I've been reading this series since I was in middle school. It's a little bittersweet. It's nice to have it wrapped up so well but there was a few things I needed to see but didnt get the chance to. I loved ferris and thought he was an ingenious narrator but there are things I wanted to see in the story that got shot down in a lackluster sort of way It was a very neutral ending, I think everyone can be at least content with it, if somewhat hungry for more.

About the author

Megan Whalen Turner is the New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author of five stand-alone novels set in the world of the Queen’s Thief. Return of the Thief marks her long-awaited conclusion to the epic and unforgettable story of the thief Eugenides—a story more than twenty years in the making. She has been awarded a Newbery Honor and a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. She has twice been a finalist for the Andre Norton Award and won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature.