The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids by Michael McClung

There’s no messing about, just bam, straight into the story with plenty of action and it’s well described. I loved certain elements to the story where we seem to go down a horror route – we have a combination of house of horrors and the funerals from spookydom! I loved the funeral scenes – they give me the creeps. Secondly, there is some great imagination here. People tend to want to help her (more often than not because she’s probably helped them way back when) but she really isn’t a damsel in distress. She’s certainly not as pretty as a picture, she probably has more scars than you can count on all your digits, she has no enticing curves, she prefers daggers to friends and has something of a filthy mouth but she’s likable nonetheless. She’s far from your typical female protagnoist. Other people are searching for the stolen goods that Corbain hid and so whilst Amra is looking for people – people are looking for her! And there are some nasty critters out there.įirstly, I liked Amra. Of course, things are not as easy as all that. Amra now needs to backtrack to find the killer. He’d carried out a theft and been double-crossed. He came to Amra the night before he died asking for help. Corbin is the friend and fellow thief in question. At the start of the story her friend and fellow thief is murdered and Amra is hellbent on revenge. Fortunately, anybody that poor generally doesn’t have much worth stealing! But when a fellow thief and good friend is killed in a deal gone wrong, Amra turns her back on burglary and goes after something far more precious: Revenge. They were wrong.”Īmra Thetys is a thief with morals: She won’t steal from anybody poorer than she is. They thought that they could just sweep him away like rubbish. So when he got himself hacked up in front of his house off Silk Street, I decided somebody had to be made to pay. “They butchered Corbin right out in the street. Just finished reading The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung which I really enjoyed.

The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids by Michael McClung