- Teenage boys, Thieves, Fiction, Fantasy
Mercedes Lackey's triumphant return to the best-selling world of Valdemar, 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.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Mercedes Lackey
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 435
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, DAW Books, Inc., Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613630818
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