Literary Crushes
Day 10. I’ll be posting one a day for the next ten days–a list of my top ten completely platonic and not in any way obsessive literary crushes. Here follow my all-time favorite cerebral, brooding, and sometimes tragic heroes in my very favorite books about them.
Eugenides. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. Although The Thief is the first book about Eugenides, the irrepressible Queen’s Thief of Eddis, I like him best in the second book, where he begins to suspect that the gods he worships have betrayed him to his enemies. After capture and brutalization by the Queen of Attolia, Eugenides can no longer steal as he did before, and although his obsession with Attolia threatens to bring him and his country to ruin, he has not fallen completely out of the great game yet. What does the Queen’s Thief decide to steal next? The enemy queen, of course.
Key points: politics, anguish, obsession, thievery, gods, royalty, feats of daring
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