It was also a great time to learn about the characters. I had quite a lot of fun discovering the world and the powers of the jinn during their travel. They were on a mission and nothing was going to stop them. Certainly, there were interesting things that happened to break up the long travel over the seemingly never-ending sand, but it felt fairly straightforward. The quest itself wasn’t the most interesting thing. The story really allows the reader to get to know Loulie, Mazen, and Aisha and their different sides and goals so the last third of the story really made me feel like I was roped in, feeling all those intense and confusing emotions with them. Omar’s POV could have been added, but I loved finding out what happened alongside the characters, loved feeling just how shocked they were and their confusion about where it left them. The Stardust Thief very much felt like a quest story and I liked that it stayed that way. While it felt like the bulk of the action might be there, I actually loved that it wasn’t brought in. There are many hints of what might be going on in the city of Madinne, where the sultan rules from and where the High Prince conspired to place himself for a plot that would have some serious ramifications. The Stardust Thief isn’t exactly fast, and it isn’t exactly action-packed, but it slowly peels back layers without overwhelming the story with too much happening around the characters. It’s told by three main viewpoints, all of whom are in some way transformed during their journey, who all make discoveries and learn about the lies that were carefully crafted around them. It’s a story of stories, and every story adds something to either the world, the characters, or the story that slowly begins to grow more and more layered.
Stardust memories synopsis full#
The Stardust Thief draws heavily on One Thousand and One Nights to present a gorgeous Arabian-inspired fantasy full of sand, sun, and bloodthirsty humans and jinn. But, while the journey starts out well enough, there are many things that are not as they seem and the desert holds many secrets. To look after Mazen, Omar sends Aisha, one of his trusty thieves. Ostensibly, Prince Omar would be accompanying them, but he manages to switch places with Mazen, who longs for adventure anyways, as some sort of plan in the city requires his presence. The Midnight Merchant is renowned for her ability to retrieve any jinn relic with the assistance of her bodyguard Qadir, who holds his own secrets, so the sultan contrives to send Loulie to retrieve the lamp. There’s a story in the royal family, one that tells of a powerful jinn trapped in a lamp by the first sultan and subsequently thrown to the jinn city that was sunk beneath the Sandsea, and the sultan wants it in order to rid the world of jinn. High Prince Omar has taken his father’s place as the King of the Forty Thieves, hunters who kill jinn and horde their relics while the Midnight Merchant has a secret she desperately needs to keep under wraps. In a world where the sultan commands the deaths of all jinn, the jinn retaliate, perpetuating war between the two. The Stardust Thief follows three characters: Loulie, the Midnight Merchant Mazen, the third Prince and the son of a legendary storyteller and Aisha, one of the High Prince’s Forty Thieves. This story moves slowly and there’s clearly no rush, but I loved the slower pace as it gave me time to enjoy the world, get to know the characters, and fall in love with all the stories nested within the pages. It allowed for the stories and memories to pour out, to bring the past to the forefront. While the quest itself was a bit lackluster, the slow pace really gave the world and the characters a chance to breathe life into the book. This is a quest story that follows the Midnight Merchant and her mysterious bodyguard, a prince who has been stuck in the palace all his life, and a jinn hunter who doesn’t know all the secrets around her. An Arabian-inspired fantasy that draws heavily from One Thousand and One Nights, it paints a fascinating story of humans and jinn. The Stardust Thief is a story of stories. One Sentence Summary: In a world where the humans and jinn are at war with each other, the Midnight Merchant and her bodyguard are sent by the sultan to recover a jinn relic from a jinn city underneath the Sandsea and are accompanied by the High Prince and one of his thieves.
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