The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The author’s name “Megan Whalen Turner” is written at the bottom of the cover in yellow capitals. The title “The Queen of Attolia” is written in larger green capitals above this, in an ornate box that stretches from the left to the right of the cover. Centre right of the cover, in very small white writing, a quote from The Horn Book reads “thoroughly involving and wholly satisfying on all fronts”. The background is green toned and shows art of a woman’s upper torso. Her head and lower body are not seen. She is wearing a long green dress with a neckline decorated in green leaf patterning. In her her right hand she is holding a green bottle of some kind, with liquid coming out of the top and landing on the middle finger of her left hand. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Ableist Slurs
• Injury
• Muder
• War Themes
• Drug Addiction
• Torture
• References to Poisoning
• Death
• Minor Swearing
• Alcohol

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Summary:

Revenge

When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes’s Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eugenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept any help that is offered… she will risk her country to execute the perfect revenge.

…but

Eugenides can steal anything. And he taunts the Queen of Attolia, moving through her strongholds seemingly at will. So Attolia waits, secure in the knowledge that the Thief will slip, that he will haunt her palace one too many times.

…at what price?

When Eugenides finds his small mountain country at war with Attolia, he must steal a man, he must steal a queen, he must steal peace. But his greatest triumph—and his greatest loss—comes in capturing something that the Queen of Attolia thought she had sacrificed long ago…

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Notes:

This is the second book in the The Queen’s Thief series. The character is not disabled in the first book, but becomes disabled in this book for the rest of the series. I have also been informed of a potential character towards the end of the series with some kind of neurological condition.

This book won the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature.

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

Here is a link to the author’s website.

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Archivist Comments:

This series keeps cropping up from time to time, normally when another book series is being compared to it. Apparently, it contains a lot of references to Greek mythology, with the characters’ names being Greek and the setting seemingly influenced by a lot of Greek and wider Mediterranian location. I think that the gods present within the book may have also been influenced by the Greek Pantheon.

There is a minor romantic subplot in this book. It’s not necessarily the best revceived- the reviews that mention it are fairly mixed- but it is there, though this book is not a romance and the subplot does not detract from the wider narrative.

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