Thieves at Heart The Valley of Ten Crescents Book 1 eBook Tristan J Tarwater
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HEROES ARE BORN. THIEVES ARE TRAINED. SHE'S NO HERO
As an orphaned half-elf in a city of humans Tavera lives in a world where she doesn't belong - until a cunning thief named Derk catches her trying to steal from him and takes her on as his apprentice.
Thievery comes easy to Tavera but Derk soon becomes more than a mentor - he is the first family she's ever known - and the lessons of a father are much more difficult to learn.
When Tavera discovers that Derk belongs to a secret society of elite thieves she is determined to join their ranks, but first she must prove her skills and gain their trust, and not everyone is ready to accept the young outsider.
Can the group of thieves be trusted, what kind of life awaits, and what is the true cost of being one of the thieves at heart?
THE VALLEY OF TEN CRESCENTS Series
Little Girl Lost ~ prequel
Thieves at Heart ~ Book I
Self-Made Scoundrel ~ Book II
Red Moon Rising ~ Book III
Shamsee A Fistful of Lunars ~ Graphic Novel
Shamsee Lone Idiot and Cub ~ Graphic Novel
Categories elves, fantasy, coming of age, slice of life, non-romantic, young adult fantasy, free fantasy novel, action & adventure, fantasy series, fantasy books for teens
Thieves at Heart The Valley of Ten Crescents Book 1 eBook Tristan J Tarwater
I think this is a very interesting concept for a series but unfortunately it's a bit lacking the execution. I like the setting and I ...mostly like Tavera ...I mean I feel like her personality shifts a lot but I think that's mostly because we're seeing her growing up here and I think she could turn into a really interesting character as an adult. The main problem with this book is that it had absolutely no structure. About halfway through I just started thinking of each chapter as a completely self-contained short story snippet kind of thing and that helped tremendously, but as something that is supposed to be a complete novel it's kind of a mess.Every chapter is literally just a random unconnected scene and is apparently several months or even years apart but we're never actually told how much Tavera has aged in between each story. It's just really weird because one second you're reading about what you think is a cute little girl and then the next second she's sleeping her way around town for information and you're just like wait ...how old is she??? Also I kept waiting for Derk to do something really skeevy to her because people are awful and unfortunately fiction often reflects that, but he truly has nothing but fatherly feelings towards her so like THANK GOD on the one hand, but on the other hand I was so on edge the whole time waiting for the other shoe to drop even though it never did.
I'm going to read the next one because 1. I picked up a free copy of it sometime back and 2. how can I not read a book called Self-Made Scoundrel. I think it will also help me ascertain whether my problem was with Tavera's age and the lack of structure or just the whole thing in general. It was an enjoyable enough story but I feel like the lack of any real coherent plot definitely held it back.
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Thieves at Heart The Valley of Ten Crescents Book 1 eBook Tristan J Tarwater Reviews
I picked this up after i stumbled across the writer's webcomic, which appears to be set in the same universe (the comic's protagonist has a brief appearance in the book), since it was free, and sounded interesting.
I shan't be picking up the following books, though.
Not that it's BAD - far from it - but it's not particularly great, wither.
The society in which the action is is set is not well-drawn; it's vaguely unpleasant, with children routinely sold (as we find out in the prequel novelette, "Little Girl Lost", also available in a free version) for slave labour in an organised market to whatever brutal (or otherwise) masters come along. (I may be inferring beyond what the author intended to imply, but it sounded to me as if a sausage-maker who has bought several children - one at a time - may have disposed of previous children she had bought in a logical manner when they were no longer able to work.) It's basically "Generic Medieval Society # 1B" - dirty and unpleasant for commoners, dirty and somewhat more pleasant for nobles and the well-to-do, active Thieves' Guild, Goddess-worship but no evident magic in use, city-states with no (evident) strong central authority, and elves as a somewhat unliked minority.
Basically, it resembles a Terry Gilliam (Jabberwocky [q.v.])/Monty Python version of the feudal world.
Tavera, the protagonist, a half-elf, is not at all likable (to me, anyway). She is very self-centered (not surprising, someone with a similar background in what we laughingly refer to as the Real World would probably be, too) and really doesn't seem to have any endearing characteristics.
The most sympathetic characters are the master-thief who takes her on as his apprentice and his sometimes-girlfriend. I'm fairly sure that, if i were to read the later books, i would discover that her mentor has unstated motives for adopting her (NOT sexual, i hasten to say) and for putting up with her. I certainly wouldn't.
The narrative skips forward in time with no warning several times - you have to figure out from (sparse) contextual clues when it has happened. The fact that this relatively short book covers more than seven years pretty well requires the skips, of course.
Not a BAD book - just not one that leads me to read any more of the author's work. I don't regret having read it - and at least i read the whole thing; there's more than one book that is popular that i couldn't even finish.
Doubtless it will appeal to a fair number of readers, and heaven knows i eagerly read stuff that others might well describe in less flattering terms that i've described this book, so don't decide whether to read it based on this review alone - read my other reviews to see if you agree with me, or read other reviews of this book to see if it sounds as if you might like it.
Welcome to the world of the Valley of the Ten Crescents, a fantasy world similar to, but not quite the same as our own world in some past time. In this book Tristan J. Tarwater tells the story of a little orphaned half-elf girl who is adopted by a man who is, by his own admission, an accomplished thief and who goes to some trouble to train her in the arts of thievery as well.
This is basically the story of how Tavera, the little elf girl grows up. I see other reviewers referenced rough transitions in the plot. I didn’t see it that way. The story is a series of scenes from the girl’s life. In fact, the story is much more straightforward than most books. Tavera occasionally remembers a scene from earlier in her life, but there aren’t a lot of flashbacks to earlier times, and the main scenes progress in chronological order, although there are some years skipped between some of them. The only real difference is that there isn’t a boring connecting phrase like, ‘Two years later,’ or ‘In the spring of her eighteenth year,’ or whatever.
Also, there weren’t a lot of extraneous characters to have to keep up with. Except for Prisca the Tart – the woman Tavera’s new father, Derk, takes her from – and the woman they call ‘Old Gam’, who appears to be his main girlfriend and who serves as sort of a substitute mother to Tavera on one or two occasions, most of the other characters show up for a single chapter or episode in Tavera’s life, and then they are gone. Derk and Tavi are loosely associated with a group of thieves – something like a Thieves Guild, I guess – that calls itself ‘The Cup of Cream’. They consider themselves the best of the best of the thieves, and Derk actively trains Tavi so that she will one day qualify for full membership in this group.
One interesting facet of life in the Valley of the Ten Crescents is their religion. They apparently worship a moon goddess of some sort. There is a temple to this goddess in every city, and Tavi and Derk occasionally go to prayers there without feeling any discomfort or embarrassment about it, although once Tavi wonders why there are laws against stealing since the goddess herself sanctioned thievery by stealing light from her brother, the sun. ‘Old Gam’ takes Tavi to the temple for some sort of ritual when she has her first menstrual period (this is a tough interlude for a single father), and it is at one of these temples that Derk and Tavi go for a formal adoption ceremony after they have been together for several years.
A lot is hinted at around the edges of Tavi and Derk’s life together that is not fully explained. I already bought the other books in the series hoping to find out more. All in all, an interesting story.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for a review.
I think this is a very interesting concept for a series but unfortunately it's a bit lacking the execution. I like the setting and I ...mostly like Tavera ...I mean I feel like her personality shifts a lot but I think that's mostly because we're seeing her growing up here and I think she could turn into a really interesting character as an adult. The main problem with this book is that it had absolutely no structure. About halfway through I just started thinking of each chapter as a completely self-contained short story snippet kind of thing and that helped tremendously, but as something that is supposed to be a complete novel it's kind of a mess.
Every chapter is literally just a random unconnected scene and is apparently several months or even years apart but we're never actually told how much Tavera has aged in between each story. It's just really weird because one second you're reading about what you think is a cute little girl and then the next second she's sleeping her way around town for information and you're just like wait ...how old is she??? Also I kept waiting for Derk to do something really skeevy to her because people are awful and unfortunately fiction often reflects that, but he truly has nothing but fatherly feelings towards her so like THANK GOD on the one hand, but on the other hand I was so on edge the whole time waiting for the other shoe to drop even though it never did.
I'm going to read the next one because 1. I picked up a free copy of it sometime back and 2. how can I not read a book called Self-Made Scoundrel. I think it will also help me ascertain whether my problem was with Tavera's age and the lack of structure or just the whole thing in general. It was an enjoyable enough story but I feel like the lack of any real coherent plot definitely held it back.
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