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Storm Thief Hardcover

4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0756981239
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0756981235
  • Customer reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings

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  • Joolz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting stuff!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2017
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    My daughter, 12, hung on every word of this, and was hooked by the immaculate plotting and cliffhangers. This, plus his equally good, and totally different, Poison (with a female heroine, yeah!) plus The Haunting of..." are the best young teen fiction I've read, and even reading them ten years later, when many of the themes of this book are more widely written about, it still holds up with the best. I do hope that CW comes back to YA fiction soon.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Honest description
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 September 2019
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    Fast delivery and book exactly as described
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  • Peter Miller
    4.0 out of 5 stars IT can best be discribed as a very distopian invironment
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2014
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    Storm Thief is set on some strange island where civilisation seems to be crumbling. IT can best be discribed as a very distopian invironment. Tow young thieves aquire an artefact that is of great value and has special powers. Basically the story is their being hunted across the island and thei encounters with the strange forces and the final defeat of some of those forces.
    I found it quite readable and exciting but it was not quite to my taste but that is personal. I found the ending left oen hanging in the air so I assume that there may be a sequel.
    To me Chris Wooding's Ketty Jay books are brilliant and I have just re-read them. This does not come anywhere near them.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2016
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    Great just what we wanted, good product and a great company.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2015
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    Good
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  • D Metcalf
    5.0 out of 5 stars Original and Iconic
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2008
    Rail and Moa are thiefs in Orokos, an island plagued by probability storms that change and disrupt the lives of its citizens. They find a way to break out of their poverty, and this leads them into a life of danger and adventure.

    Beautifully written by Wooding (as ever), the setting and characters are iconic and original. A good half-way house between Wooding's teen and adult fantasy books. Highly recommended.
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  • V. Brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge by other Wooding books
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 June 2006
    This novel has a lot to live up to, considering it's award winning predecessors, but I was not disappointed. If you compare it to Poison or The Braided Path trilogy you do find it lacks some depth, though after writing the Braided Path trilogy Chris Wooding most definitely deserved a less taxing project!

    However, it is an excellent read, with the usual twists and unique ideas that characterize Wooding's novels. Storm Thief is imaginitive and a great adventure story. I just wish it could have been longer.
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  • Ancient Mariner
    4.0 out of 5 stars Featuring A Bionic Frankenstein Zombie-Killing Golem
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2018
    This starts slowly and despite the promise of cool things like "probability storms" it feels like a pretty standard issue Oliver Twist dystopian ghetto thief tale. But wait, just a few pages in our two thieves find a priceless high tech "object" and everything takes off.

    The basic premise is that the island nation Orokos is isolated in the middle of a vast endless ocean. It was once the home of a mighty technologically advanced civilization, but all that's left are a few "pre-Fade" artifacts and some buildings. While there is an upper class and a lower class, everyone is just hanging on around the edges of this once dominant civilization. Just to add spice, weird energy creatures called Revenants occasionally appear and possess people and zombify them. And, probability storms arise from nowhere and switch around reality. In the middle of Orokos is an impenetrable Tower that dates back to the pre-Fade era. Most people believe that the Revenants and the probability storms emanate from the Chaos Engine that's supposedly hidden in the middle of the Tower. Pretty cool, and all set up briskly, efficiently, and plausibly enough to be accepted by the reader.

    Our main characters, Rail and Moa, are the two thieves who stole the artifact that might be the key to the whole thing. Everyone ends up chasing them. And that's sort of fun because Rail and Moa are appealing, if shallowly developed, characters, and the author does a fine job of building a crazy-quilt, if irrational Orokos. The other main, and especially interesting, character is a bespoke super-soldier golem, Vago, who may be the answer/savior. He befriends and then betrays Rail and Moa and then - well, there's a big finish where everyone important, including all of the chasees and all of the chasers, all come together in the Tower for some monologuing and a socko finale.

    In addition to the imaginative and sometimes inspired world building there is suspense and there are thrills. While Wooding doesn't go deep on the characters he does sketch out a resilient, and sometimes even tender, relationship between Rail and Moa. Vago is the tormented Frankenstein monster, but Wooding doesn't handle his story ironically; rather, he goes for internal conflict and the golem's buried humanity, and this is successful enough to add some weight to the poor stitched together guy.

    So, I thought this was very entertaining, and it introduces a lot of fantasy sci-fi action world building elements to a younger reader in a fast paced and crisply written style. While the ending was a bit preachy, (chaos will make you stronger, etc.), I thought it a nice find.
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  • Dyien
    5.0 out of 5 stars interesting characters, compelling story
    Reviewed in Germany on 1 October 2015
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    I really liked this book. The characters are interesting and believable, and the story is unique and makes you wish there was a lot more to it than just one book. I can definitely recommend it for fans of fantasy/dystopia and fiction.
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  • Amanda
    5.0 out of 5 stars and this one is most definitely my favorite! As always
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 January 2016
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    I have read a couple of his other works (Poison and The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray), and this one is most definitely my favorite! As always, great imagery and interesting plot, storyline, and characters. I have recommended this book to several friends and will continue to do so!
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  • Darice11
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting world and good story. The sequencing of the story line and ...
    Reviewed in Australia on 6 August 2014
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    Very interesting world and good story. The sequencing of the story line and character profiles were well put together but used familiar themes for the badies (control, world domination, secret service). With more imagination for the badies could have been 5 stars.
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  • Mama Bear09
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Happy despite the dirt
    Reviewed in the United States on 12 April 2021
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    It was a used item but it came in dirty like someone had dropped it in some dirt and spilled something on it. Still I was extremely happy to have gotten it. I’ve been looking for this book literally everywhere. Other than being dirty it was in perfect condition.
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  • Braydon B.
    4.0 out of 5 stars One of my all time favorites
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 May 2018
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    The world creation alone would draw me to this book, but I stayed for the characters. Wooding’s writing style is attractive and addicting
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