There are adults in the book but none of them ring true or behave like any adult you've ever met would when met with two young runaways and a kid that is a thief even if he does know magic. There's little emotional involvement, and the rest of the story just meanders. The story is very slow to get started, and the promised fantasy element doesn't appear until the last 75 pages. The boys thought he was some kind of hero because he did whatever he wanted and also was capable of magic that was seldom used for anything good. The second thing that bothered me was that none of the adults in the book seemed to want to confront him on it or question him in any way. One.it's a book marketed for 10–12-year-old children and it seemed that the entire theme of the book is based on the boy known as The Thief Lord and his habits of stealing and how enthralled with him the two boys were that was with him. I found the book problematic on several levels. This time she wasn't her usual enthusiastic self about sharing this story so I asked her if I could read it. I love hearing her tell me all about what she's read when she finishes. I read this book after my 9-year-old little friend that sometimes sits and reads with me and brings all her books for me to look over got this from her school library.
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