Recently, I took a trip to the local book store and purchased a few sequels to books I’ve already read. This one, The Queen of Attolia, is the sequel to The Thief, which is the story of the Queen’s Thief, Eugenides. During the last book, Eugenides proved himself to his kingdom of Eddis by stealing a treasure from a maze and returning it to his Queen. However, in The Queen of Altolia, Eugenides, while hiding in the castle of the neighboring kingdom of Attolia, is caught. The Queen of Attolia cuts off his hand as punishment, which is a huge loss to the thief.

When he is returned to Eddis, the whole castle treats Eugenides differently, which makes him angry and irritable. He is plagued by nightmares constantly, which worries the Eddisian Queen and Eugenides’s father, who is the Queen’s minister of war. Without telling Eugenides, Eddis and Attolia go to war, along with the bordering country of Sounis. When the thief realizes that the Queen started the war because of him, and without telling him, he is very angry.

However, in a time of combat, Eugenides has no time to be grumbling about his own issues. The Queen of Eddis needs him to “steal peace.” Can Eugenides complete her task and come out alive?