6⭐ ! All of the stars ! "Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. We'll see if he really prefers the Thief." Truly a masterpiece of a series. It's so different from anything else I've ever read. The writing is, to me, as strong of a component than the characters or the plot. It confuses you, on purpose! Sometimes it's a 3rd person pov following a character closely, sometimes it's omniscient, sometimes you think it is, until an "I" pops up and you're like?? Who's thinking ?? Who are we ?? Any other book, I'd say it's bad writing or editing; Megan's using it masterfully to give us the exact information she wants us to have and nothing else. The scheming, the foreshadowing.. small or big plot points are solved and laid to rest, only to come back in later books, like small parts of a much bigger whole. What a delight to read. It's a kind of books much more subtle than nowadays releases, both in terms of plot, of romance, of characters, in a way that resembles most closely big epics, but without the emotional distance than normally comes with that kind of writing. I felt for the characters, Gen is one of my favourite characters of all times now. The depth, the layers Actually, beside the official "a thief ennacting the will of the gods, war, betrayal, heists" aspect, this series is Gen loving to needle people who hate him and ending up with the very unfortunate result of those people all coming to love him devotedly and now suffocating him with their concern for his well-being. And that, too, is a delight. Actually let me use that word one more time: the chasing scene? Most delightful thing I've read in a long time. Will recommend until the day I die. "Your Majesty." Hilarion was close to begging. "Everyone is waiting." "Tell them I died." "Your Majesty?" "Died, Hilarion. In the night. Peacefully." "Why would I do that?" "Because then you could all go away and leave me alone."