I loved when she was able to stand up for herself and others. There were parts where I did enjoy her as a character. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about Julia as a protagonist. With her memory coming back in pieces, will she be able to remember what happened to her before it’s too late? In the meantime, she meets some new people and they take her on a journey that changes her life and who is really she. The Pearl Thief follows fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart who after waking up in the hospital is trying to fill in the gaps. While it wasn’t what I was expecting, I also didn’t hate it and enjoyed aspects of the book. It wasn’t what I expected to be and with so much hype around this world and the author I was looking for something more. But when I heard there was going to be a prequel, I thought it was the best way to start.

I’ve been wanting to read Code Name Verity for some time. I was really looking forward to The Pearl Thief.

This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book. I received an earc of The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein from Bloomsbury Australia via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travellers. As Julie grows closer to this family, she experiences some of the prejudices they’ve grown used to firsthand, a stark contrast to her own upbringing, and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. One of her family’s employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital.ĭesperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scots Traveller boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister Ellen. And once she returns to her grandfather’s estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realise that her injury might not have been an accident. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she’d imagined won’t be exactly like she anticipated.