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The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner. Queen’s Thief #1. Definitely a fun reread; it’s great to spend more time with my favorite unreliable narrator. Eugenides is plucked from prison by a magus (scholar not magician) working for a king and taken to steal an important artifact. The world is very much like an adaptation of ancient Greece, but with amusing anachronisms to spot – the rifles are obvious, as is the coffee; I didn’t notice the glass windows, but there are others. In the interview with the author at the end, she says it’s better to think of the story as taking place in the 1500s, if Christianity (and the Roman Empire) had never happened.