It continually surprises me, actually, how much of a little
fantasy fan I’ve become. I can remember when I was growing up and my Dad used
to read all these sci-fi and fantasy novels and I was all WHY WOULD I WANT TO
READ BOOKS ABOUT DRAGONS AND MAGIC AND PLACES THAT AREN’T REAL AND THINGS THAT
COULD NEVER EXIST and now I am all grabby hands for all of those things.
Anyhow. In that vein, let us talk today about the first in
Sally Green’s new series The Smoke
Thieves.
Sidenote: you may have heard of Sally from her Half Bad trilogy, and if you haven’t,
well, you should get on that. S’good.
So The Smoke Thieves is
new, and it’s about a princess preparing for a political marriage, the guard
she’s in love with, a servant hungry for
revenge, a boy who isn’t sure what he wants to do with his life and steals
things just because he can, and a thirteen year old girl who spends her life
being bait for a demon hunter.
I KNOW, RIGHT? ALL THE GOOD THINGS.
