What readers think of The Good Thief, plus links to write your own review.

Hannah Tinti has a wonderfully descriptive writing style. She gets her point across without excess and gives you a feel for her main character's thought processes. However, I felt that near the end the storyline simply was too predictable with a pat ending. I definitely enjoyed the book for the most part because her characters were interesting, but I was disappointed because the author seemed to run out of options for her storyline and simply chose the easy and predictable way out. This was a book that at points I didn't want to put down, but at others I could have simply walked away from it because I could tell what was coming.

The characters here are interesting but I never truly connected with any of them. The story includes the requisite "bad guy" whom I must admit transcends your normal criminal as he possesses no conscience at all. The main character is noteworthy and the other players are certainly the products of the authors creative imagination; however, though the book pulls you along toward a sense of compassion, it was hard for me to care about any of the characters. I don't feel I wasted my time reading this novel, it just isn't one of my favorites.

Warm, sensitive, multi-layered characters. Human & real but the plot drags.

This story didn’t live up to its press. The blurbs on the cover, even the description here on BookBrowse, were all better than the reality. The characters didn’t seem plausible, the story wound up too tidily to be believable. There were elements that seemed tossed in and didn’t seem to serve any real purpose. Without giving away the plot, there was a character towards the end who was particularly unbelievable. He was demanding answers from a child who had absolutely no way to know the answers. Demanding, as in threatening to kill the child if he didn’t give the answer. Perhaps that was meant to show the man was mentally ill but it just came off as if the writer didn’t have another way to get the story along.

I’m sorry to say that The Good Thief is a book that I neither liked nor disliked. It was just okay.

I had to read this book for summer reading, and I hated every minute of it. Hannah Tinti starts off great with the orphanage and everything and then takes a horrible turn with adding odd characters. Her language is okay, but most of all, there is no determined plot. Yes, it is unpredictable but I would like to see a storyline that makes sense and is easy to follow. I can understand more in Jane Eyre than this book because Jane Eyre has a beautifully written plot and great themes. This book could have been written so much better if author wrote more clearly so I can understand what is going on. It was such an awful book, I can barely write this review. This book had so much potential, but the author had poor execution.

I found that this book was very bland and boring, although it has a good storyline the author just could not grab my full attention. It was in my opinion almost too easy of a read to the point where i felt it was for 4th graders where as i am a high schooler.

This book was assigned for us as summer reading, I am an avid reader I simply love reading and I am rather good understanding what I read according to my past English teachers. The thing is this book is overly detailed and just so drawn out I can't finish it! I started in June and it is the 2nd week of august! I have another book to read after this and I sure hope it is a lot better! to be honest I would never want to have to even look at this book again : ( I hate it way too much!