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The Thief Queen's Daughter: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme
297 pp.
| Tor/Starscape |
July, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7653-0868-9$17.95
(4)
4-6
Illustrated by
Jason Chan.
Ven and his friends (The Floating Island) venture into the outlaw-inhabited Gated City, then become trapped when one of them is kidnapped and another revealed to be the Thief Queen's daughter. Haydon's affable characters and imaginative, well-realized backdrop retain their appeal, but the plot, overly concerned with setting the stage for a third volume, never reaches the intensity of the first.