Rating: 4.5🌈
Another great book in the Fortune Favors the Fae series, this one by Lee Colgin.
The Sorcerer’s Thief takes place in Colgin’s Luminia series universe, a series I hadn’t read so wasn’t familiar with. Did I feel I was missing a bit of foundation information about the magical political regime’s history? Yes, as the story could only fill in so much. But this is such a terrific tale that those gaps, while important, lessen in comparison to the main characters and their lives.
Here’s where that fae coin interferes again, when the outstanding character Cricket arrives, stealing into the royal household, to make his last appearance as a thief before heading home. He’s been away too long from his village and wants one last great item to sell.
Colgin lets the reader immediately into what’s special about Cricket, as he introduces him stealing what we all know will be that meddlesome coin. Cricket’s partly fae, just enough to have some sort of magic but looks completely human. In a Fae kingdom that’s only just recently been accepting of other species, that hasn’t been a good thing. His family history is one that’s revealed as the story evolves. It’s how we get to know Cricket, his personality and why he’s a thief with trust issues.
That coin brings him to the immediate attention of another player. A would be thief and sorcerer, Julian, who desperately wants that coin. Julian is a damaged, broken being with hidden secrets but both the coin and Cricket keep directing him towards another path.
Throw in a nearly blind pony, a journey of discovery, magic, and misadventure and danger and you have a fantastic tale of romance and found family.
Julian’s last minute story of his real life parentage didn’t make much sense to me and didn’t add anything to a grand finale so it must have been for the series readers. It felt like an addition.
The Sorcerer’s Thief (Fortune Favors the Fae book 4) by Lee Colgin is another winner in this fabulous collection and another book that I’m recommending.
These covers are just spectacular, some of my favorites in years.
Fortune Favors the Fae – 15 books:
✓ A Fae Coin Transported Me Into Another World and Now I’m the Gay Holy Maiden by AJ Sherwood #1❤️
✓ The Wolf’s (Un)Lucky Fae by Michele Notaro #2 ❤️
✓ Bound to the Wild Fae by Tavia Lark #3 June 13❤️
✓ The Sorcerer’s Thief by Lee Colgin #4 ❤️🔷
◦ The Fae Menagerie by Edie Montreaux #5 – June 27,2024
◦ Never Darling by Sam Burns #6 – July 4,2024
◦ Prince of Poison by Alice Winters #7 – July 11,2024
◦ Grave Misfortune by Nazri Noor #8 – July 18,2024
◦ Fae for Pay by Meaghan Maslow #9 – July 23,2024
◦ Kisses at the Crossroad by Morgan Lysand #10 – August 1,2024
◦ Smoke and Mirrors by Kai Butler #11 – August 8, 2024
◦ Siren in the Rain by Chloe Archer #12 – Aug 15,2024
◦ I Destroyed the Elf Prince’s Harem by Jocelynn Drake #13 – Aug 22,2024
◦ A Fae Called Wylder by Michelle Frost #14 – Aug 29,2024
◦ Lucky or Knot by Eliot Grayson #15 – September 5,2024
🔷Ties into the author’s Luminia Romances (3 books) for universe foundation
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Blurb
The Thief
Cricket thought he’d stolen the ultimate prize: a rare coin rumored to possess magical powers. But when an alluring sorcerer upends his world in a moonlit alley, Cricket discovers the coin is more powerful than he’d ever imagined.
And he’ll risk his life to keep it.
The Sorcerer
Julian needs that stupid coin, and seeing as it’s fallen into the hands of a mortal man—a beguiling, smooth-talking thief, really—it should be easy enough to claim. So why does he continue to fail in his every attempt?
Unstoppable Ancient Magic
For someone who thrives in the shadows, Cricket discovers there’s no hiding from the magic that binds him to the coin, or the infuriatingly seductive Fae sorcerer intent on reclaiming it. Soon, both men find themselves battling volatile magic and a dangerous attraction while desperately holding on to what neither can afford to lose: their hearts.
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The Sorcerer’s Thief is a part of the multi-author series Fortune Favors the Fae. From spicy to sweet, zany romps to epic adventures, there’s something for everyone in this mystical series. Discover destiny and true love and follow the coin on its fickle journey to the next world and a new magical adventure.
• Publisher: (June 20, 2024)
• Publication date: June 20, 2024
• Language: English
• File size: 3039 KB
• Simultaneous device usage: Unlimited
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Screen Reader: Supported
• Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Word Wise: Enabled
• Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
• Print length: 252 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 