The romance between Jase and Kazi is also heart-melting, though it loses a lot of its tension when they succumb to their hate-to-love arc so early on in the story.įor those who have read the 'Remnant Chronicles,' there are appearances from characters like Lia and Rafe that you’ll enjoy. It is fun to get to know Jase's large family of many brothers and sisters and see their dynamics together - it's part of what melts Kazi's heart toward him. In the meantime, the reader is forced to watch them hold parties, do their shopping and rebuild homes for refugees, thinking maybe something in all this will end up being important to the plot, only to ultimately discover none of it really is. Trapped together and forced to understand each other's opposing points of view, they, not surprisingly, fall in love.ĭespite the fact that the reader knows Kazi and Jase's secrets will come to a head, the story drags on while they avoid revealing them to each other. Although they manage to escape, they remained chained together at the ankle. In a move that feels contrived, Jase and Kazi are both captured by slave hunters. Kazi and a few of her fellow members of the queen’s guard come to Jase’s outlier territory, where the queen and those who enforce her laws are not popular. Unfortunately, it was not a story that stood well on its own. Having not read the 'Remnant Chronicles' myself, I came into “Dance of Thieves” looking at it as its own book, independent from any others. Pearson’s best-selling 'Remnant' series, “Dance of Thieves” tells the story of Kazimyrah, a former thief and current member of the queen’s guard, and Jase, the young leader of an outlaw family ruling at the edge of the queen’s realm.

Set in the young adult fantasy world of Mary E. Pearson, Henry Holt and Company, 512 pages (f) (ages 14 and up)

Dance with thieves