#keepers trilogy

[lemonysnicket]

i reread museum of thieves (and the whole keepers trilogy of course, but the og title is so much cooler...) on a whim after remembering vaguely that i was Obsessed with it as a kid and i fear i am once again attached. nostalgia + middle grade whimsy does wonders for my artblock

[notyourmartyr]

Book(s) spotlight: Keepers Trilogy by David Dalglish

I want to preface this by saying I may be a bit biased here. If you saw my post about planning this, I mentioned befriending an author on Twitter, getting to read some of his books before they were published, and getting to play test his choose your own adventure game for a series.

That's David. Keepers was the first series of his I read, and I fell in love. It's high fantasy with a wonderful Ensemble cast, LGBT rep, handling of trauma in ways that made me thank him.

Finishing book 2 was really the start of our friendship, because I reached out to ask him if I could homebrew one of his monstrous races for D&D. He said yes.

One of the things I really loved about Keepers was that the main character is A HERO in his own right, but he's still humble, down to earth, makes mistakes, and ultimately a vehicle for the true hero to come forth and do what needs to be done.

From beginning to end, I was enchanted, and I can't wait to see the final product of his choose your own adventure - because yes, it's for this series (and, he's implementing nonbinary options for the MC of the story).

[wordmage-girl]

She took her terror in both hands, like a spiky, shivering, ugly ball she could hardly bear to hold. She greeted it politely, the way Herro Dan had taught her so long ago. Then she did what she had to do, in spite of it.

"Path of Beasts", Lian Tanner

[wordmage-girl]

There were different sorts of fear, she realized that now. There was the awful fear of having a musket held to your head, or having black oily water try to snatch you into its depths. There was nothing easy about that fear. It made your heart nearly tear itself out of your chest, and weakened the long bones in your legs so that you could barely stand. It made you want to vomit with fright. But there was another sort of fear, the fear that you would never be allowed to be who you really were. The fear that your true self would have to stay squashed up, like a caged bird, for the rest of your life. That fear was worse than any soldier.

"Museum of Thieves", Lian Tanner

[wordmage-girl]

“But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.”

"Museum of Thieves", Lian Tanner

[nslchildren-blog]

MUSEUM OF THIEVES, Book 1 in the Keepers Trilogy, by Lian Tanner (by RandomBooks)