Thief!

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A children story that can only be enjoyed by the children is not a good children story in the slightest.” - C.S. Lewis

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Because; the thing is, Lydia might now prevent herself and Danny growing into jaded tyrants, but that isn’t stopping literally everyone else from tormenting the town and the whole of England. The resistance says this themselves: A lot of characters will suddenly just know what’s going on; how exactly the time travel worked (particularly when Lydia meets Old Lydia). It wasn’t detrimental to the plot, or anything; it seems to have been done for convenience sake, to save lots of explaining. But feels rather lazy on the authors side. The next thing you know, you're in the future. Being shot at for being out after curfew. You don't even recognise your hometown. And you're heading for a confrontation from your worst nightmare.The whole initial conflict. Look, I get Lydia feeling distraught. She’s a bit pathetic, but everything was describing pretty well; probably the best bit of description in the book - how she feels that everyone hates her, what it’s like to be outside when everyone thinks you’re a thief. But it gets pulled to such ridiculous proportions. I’d buy it if this were just Lydia’s perception; she is convinced every single soul in the town hates her because she is so anxious, when in truth it isn’t such a big deal - but considering that this conflict triggers the whole plot, it doesn’t come across that way. And also the fact that Frankie remembered all this in painstaking detail and even passed it down to her daughter. ~ This is further reinforced by the Henson’s believing they were ‘forced’ out of the town which is ‘directly linked’ to their crash. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-09-14 10:05:18 Boxid IA1928621 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Fran knowing all about Lydia’s conflict. Why would Frankie tell her this in such aching detail? One would assume that it’s to make Fran understand the Tyrant’s motivations, but the thing is, Fran doesn’t know about his motivations! Only about the cup-conflict. And not just, oh there was this girl in town who ran away and died because people accused her of theft. But in every single -she-tried-to-speak-to-you-in-the-parking-lot-of-the-supermarket-but-you-wouldn’t-listen-i-wish-you-had-listened-then-she-slipped-and-fell-but-it-wasn’t-your-fault detail. Fran’s general knowledge on the subject broke my suspension of disbelief. Felt a lot like lazy writing. Time Travel: - largely forwards/future Time Travel story? - Yes Family relations - Yes Main Character Identity: - Female THIEF! is an imaginative novel which plays with the parable of not letting hate beget hate. We follow the protagonist Lydia as she tries to deal with the contempt of a whole town. It ultimately leads her to being whisked about 40 years into the future, where her town his subjected to the oppression of the Tyrant.

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urn:lcp:thief0000blac:epub:dee7ec69-2d14-488c-9738-e265e6344656 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier thief0000blac Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t80m1n97v Invoice 1652 Isbn 0552551651 The argument is that there is no one worse. But that doesn’t say they will be a whole lot better. According to Fran, the whole of England is cluttered with rulers ranging from poor to downright awful. High profile cases such as the horrific murder of Stephen Lawrence, as well as her own negative personal experiences, made her consider the issue of race. By this time she felt she had a comfortable platform and respect enough within the world of writing (as well as television) to contribute positively to a difficult subject. Noughts and Crosses Firstly we are introduced to the main protagonist, Lydia. She's a 12 year old who's main goal is to just fit in school. I'm sure many of us have been there before. So far the books going well.But damn. That time travel wasn’t thought through. Or rather. None of the characters thought it through. At first I thought only Lydia was an idiot. But. Seems like I was wrong. Anyway, let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she got accused of stealing the trophy that the school give huge sh*ts about apparently and get the consequences. The next bit where she confronts her friend and "pushes" her in front of a car was a good scene and I enjoyed it. It was almost the breaking point for our poor friend who had just been accused of stealing and now accused of pushing her in front of a car. Lydia is quite happy with her life; she has just moved down from London to a small town called Tarwich and has already made a friend but then she is blamed for a theft that she did not commit. Suddenly her life turns upside down and everywhere she looks people are pointing at her and shouting ‘THIEF!’. All she wants to do is hide in humiliation and only her 10-year-old brother, Danny, really understands how she feels. Isn’t that nice? Mike seems to be one of the reasonable people here; but his point of view on the matter is never explained? We never discover why he lies to the resistance about who Lydia is, though he’d have many reasons to, as established. This is an exciting book which allows the reader to imagine the future and the advance in technology. This book did have me hooked at certain points though at times i felt it was a tad too descriptive.