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Escape or be a servant?\nStarve or steal?
\nTrust someone or be captured?<\/p>\n
Escape or be a servant?
\nStarve or steal?
\nTrust someone or be captured?<\/p>\n
Alli has very few choices when Beck arrives on the scene, but taking his help will involve her in a dangerous guild<\/a> – only way she can stop the curse from killing her, though!<\/p>\n Read chapter 1 free on publisher’s website<\/a>, then scurry to your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> for the first part of Alli and Beck’s adventure – book two, The Shadow Thieves<\/em><\/a>, was published in June 2018!<\/p>\n What’s your moral compass when survival is at stake? Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Rules for Thieves (Rules for Thieves, book 1) \/ Alexandra Ott. Aladdin Books, 2017 hardcover, 2018 paperback. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: As the curse moves toward her heart, 12-year-old orphan Alli must decide if she can sacrifice her principles to join the Thieves’ Guild for a chance to buy the cure.<\/p>\n Escaping from the orphanage is easy; not being caught by the city Protectors (again) is more difficult, so Alli accepts a strange boy’s offer to help – what a mistake!<\/p>\n A glancing blow of magic lodges a deadly curse under her skin; Beck knows how she can get money for the cure, so they head for his country – such a journey!<\/p>\n Of course he didn’t tell her the whole truth… entering the Thieves’ Guild is near-impossible for outsiders, but as the curse’s dark tendrils wind ever-nearer to her heart, she’s got to try!<\/p>\n When her initiation quest goes terrible wrong, Alli balances on a knife’s edge – her life or the lives of many?<\/p>\n In a foreign city, on a desperate mission – follow the Guild rules or what she knows is right?<\/p>\n Book one in the series, followed by The Shadow Thieves<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Escape or be a servant? Starve or steal? Trust someone or be captured? Alli has very few choices when Beck arrives on the scene, but taking his help will involve her in a dangerous guild – only way she can stop the curse from killing her, though! Read chapter 1 free on publisher’s website, then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19],"tags":[90,22,4,45,20,5,70,16,44,43,38,49,15,21,66,35,33,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-9983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rules-for-thieves.jpg?fit=1400%2C2110&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9983"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10010,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions\/10010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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