Luckily for me, I looked up all of his books and there are nine I haven't yet acquainted myself with. But that's for later. Storm Thief, if I had to describe in one word that could not be 'amazing', would definitely have to be either 'different' or 'cool'. In fact, even after reading The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Storm Thief remains the absolute coolest book I've ever read.
Their are actually two 'main' main characters (yes, it's one of those complicated books that jumps from person to person and half the time you don't know who is talking) named Rail and Moa who live in the island city of Orkos. Orkos has these amazing things called probability storms which change everything they touch in some form or other. In my opinion, there were not enough probability storms in the book.
Anyway, Rail and Moa are poor and live on the poor side of town. In Orkos, the rich live on the rich side and the poor live on the poor side, and while the rich may cross to visit the poor if they need something illegal done (everyone on the poor side had to be criminals to survive) the poor may not. So, Rail and Moa are theives.
If I continued talking, I would give away the entire book and then I would be sad because you would see no point in reading it. And trust me, there's major point in reading it.
The book is so fast paced that you won't want to put it down, nor will you be able to breathe throughout many parts of the book. Even the beginning is amazing, which is not too common anymore (especially not from a book at my school's library). Storm Thief will remain one of my favorite books for a long, long time (overshadowed only by The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray and as Chris Wooding is my new favorite author.
