Storm Thief (edition 2006)

I love it when I can't predict everything in a book, and that's what happened with this story. Good stuff. And to think, I almost gave up on it. ( )

I didn't find anything particularly new here, and I can't say the characters were very compelling. I never quite understood why the relationships were the way they were, or why the island was cut off the way it was, or why some of the characters that seemed important simply weren't brought back again, or why the Touched killed with a touch. This felt like the set-up for a series in some ways, but in others seemed to be holding on tightly to the bleak ending. ( )

I read this book when I was in the eighth grade and I found it to be very entertaining, It's an odd book with a strange setting yet it keeps the readers attention. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who doesn't like science fiction. I'm not sure if there's a sequal to this I never looked but if so I'd recommend going on and reading the rest of the possible series.
I also like how Wooding incorporated the whole resperator aspect into the main characters health. Not many authors do that within their novels. ( )

Rail and Moa are thieves in the only city of Orokos (and by only I mean only - there is nothing else). While on a mission they discover a piece of ancient technology and they don't turn it in to their patron. This is all the start of a very grand adventure as Rail and Moa run from the secret police, monsters knows as Revenants, and the thugs sent by their thieve's patron.

Along the way the meet a very interesting "person". A golem named Vago that has quite an interesting past,of only he could remember what it was. Together the three flee across the city looking for a new and better life.

This was a fantastic story. The characters are fantastic and come to life on the pages. Their relationship is unique and wonderful to read about. They are all bound together by a fate that is greater than any one of them.

5/5 ( )

I read this entire book without being very bored. But I don't plan to ever read it again. It just wasn't interesting enough. I can't give it high marks. It gets a 3/5. ( )