The story of Skif, the thief-turned-Herald. Like most of Lackey's books, the first half is much better than the last. ( )

Fun, cheesy, charming, giggly, everything that a YA Lackey novel should be. I love my adorable thieves. ( )

One of the more charming of Lackey's Valdemar books, Take a Thief tells the tale of Skif, a young boy neglected and abused by his uncle, who discovers new worlds when mandatory education and breakfast is established in Valdemar. Besides the filling meal he receives at school, he discovers that he can supplement his diet by sneaking into fancy houses and pretending to be a page. An encounter with a pickpocket turns Skif even further into the criminal arts, but a little spot of horse rustling seals his future, and it's not the one he expects. ( )

Hard to understand what people are saying sometimes because of the rough spoken engligh. ( )