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City of Lies (The Keepers Trilogy #2)
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Lian Tanner (Goodreads Author)
Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar. Along with her friend Toadspit, she's supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. But although she desperately wants to be a Keeper, she will not leave her sick parents to do so.
But when Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, he and Goldie are forced to follow the child-stealers to the neighboring city...more
But when Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, he and Goldie are forced to follow the child-stealers to the neighboring city...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
September 27th 2011
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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This second book in The Keepers trilogy keeps the excitement going. It was great! Very imaginative, new setting and new adventures for Goldie and her friends. I guessed the main revelation in the book, but it was still rewarding seeing how Goldie got there. Fascinating new magic with "big lies." I liked the new character Mouse. The part about Princess Fresia was also fascinating, as are possible further implications.
I don't want to be hard-hearted, but I'm getting impatient with Goldie's parents...more
I don't want to be hard-hearted, but I'm getting impatient with Goldie's parents...more
“You were born to be the fifth Keeper. It is your destiny”
The second heart-stopping adventure in The Keepers Trilogy. Goldie Roth want to be the fifth keeper in the Museum of Dunt but she cannot leave her parents. While Toadspit and Goldie walk to the museum Toadspit’s sister Bonnie follows them. Bonnie shows of her archery skills and runs to get her arrow and gets kidnapped. Goldie and Toadspit are forced to follow the kidnappers to the strange city of Spoke. When Toadspit to gets kidnapped, Go...more
The second heart-stopping adventure in The Keepers Trilogy. Goldie Roth want to be the fifth keeper in the Museum of Dunt but she cannot leave her parents. While Toadspit and Goldie walk to the museum Toadspit’s sister Bonnie follows them. Bonnie shows of her archery skills and runs to get her arrow and gets kidnapped. Goldie and Toadspit are forced to follow the kidnappers to the strange city of Spoke. When Toadspit to gets kidnapped, Go...more
Sep 30, 2011
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‘A Big Lie isn’t the least bit convincing when you’re in it.’
Life seems to be returning to normal, in the city of Jewel, after the upheaval some months earlier (as related in the ‘Museum of Thieves’). Goldie Roth is both a trained thief and a skilful liar, and she should also be one of the Keepers of the Museum of Dunt, together with her friend Toadspit. But while Goldie desperately wants to be a Keeper, her parents are ill after their time in the House of Repentance, and she does not want to le...more
Life seems to be returning to normal, in the city of Jewel, after the upheaval some months earlier (as related in the ‘Museum of Thieves’). Goldie Roth is both a trained thief and a skilful liar, and she should also be one of the Keepers of the Museum of Dunt, together with her friend Toadspit. But while Goldie desperately wants to be a Keeper, her parents are ill after their time in the House of Repentance, and she does not want to le...more
After I finished the Museum of Thieves I had so many questions that I was uncertain as to how I felt about the book. I wasn't sure of the main message - was it freedom, was it being wary of the cruelty that comes from lust for power, was it listening to the voice within and acting on what you know in your heart to be right? Why was the museum alive with wildness? Is wildness good?
Some of those questions remain now that I have completed The City of Lies, but I am not bothered by the wondering. I...more
Some of those questions remain now that I have completed The City of Lies, but I am not bothered by the wondering. I...more
In this second installment in the series, Goldie has to go to the city of Spoke to try to save her friend Toadspit and his sister Bonnie. Goldie and Toadspit had been on their way to the Museum of Dunt in the middle of the night, and Bonnie decided to follow them. When two strange men pass them, the kids don't pay much attention...until they realize that Bonnie is gone. Who are those men? And why did they take Bonnie? And where are they taking her? As the two try to help Bonnie, Toadspit is also...more
City of Lies is the second book in The Keepers series by Lian Tanner. Tanner keeps the main characters of Toadspit and Goldie central in this book, but moves the action away from the Museum. Toadspit's sister Bonnie has been kidnapped, and Toadspit and Goldie jump aboard the ship where she is captive just as it sails away. Toadspit is captured, but Goldie remains free when the boat in the strange city of Spoke, which is gearing up for the Festival of Lies. Goldie bravely gathers allies, and come...more
In the sequel to Museum of Thieves Goldie is questioning her 'destiny.' Should she continue working in the Museum of Dunt or should she remain home, a faithful daughter to her damaged parents? Her heart is pulled in two directions.
However, she doesn't pause or hesitate when Toadspit's sister is kidnapped. The two kids chase down the thieves and follow them aboard ship to Spoke, where a festival of lies is about to commence. When Toadspit too is captured Goldie is left to save them both from the...more
However, she doesn't pause or hesitate when Toadspit's sister is kidnapped. The two kids chase down the thieves and follow them aboard ship to Spoke, where a festival of lies is about to commence. When Toadspit too is captured Goldie is left to save them both from the...more
We listened to this on audio. I am so grateful to have audio books to listen to. Otherwise, I'd never find some of the great new books out there. This is the second in a series. I strongly recommend reading the first beforehand, though it is not necessary.
Even just listening to the book, and over a period of weeks at that, the author manages to juggle several characters, several locations, and even a parallel universe, and it is all perfectly clear.
I love that the characters are edgy but still b...more
Even just listening to the book, and over a period of weeks at that, the author manages to juggle several characters, several locations, and even a parallel universe, and it is all perfectly clear.
I love that the characters are edgy but still b...more
Maybe I've just read too much series fiction lately so I'm more critical of it, but while I enjoyed this novel I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first installment. This book takes place in an entirely different place than the first for most of the story and while it was an interesting city I was eager to read more of the museum and disappointed that there wasn't much of it in this installment. I liked the new characters, but once again there were already so many characters in the first nove...more
As a sequal to Museum of Thieves, it is very good. It doesn't just continue on from the end of the previous book, it is a whole new adventure that happens to take place after the last one ended. I enjoyed reading this book but was disappointed in the ending. I felt as though Lian Tanner didn't know how to write a transition teaser. I have a compulsion to read all three books of a trilogy (most of the time) and will read the last book when it is released. I am not urgently awaiting the sequel to...more
Second volume of series, didn't read first and it still made sense. The Plot is pretty routine--a kidnapping leads the central characters to a neighboring city, where they make friends and engineer an escape from baddies with help from magical animals--but there are some unusually good ideas: I particularly liked the city's Festival of Lies, an annual event during which you can only speak untruths (unless you're touching an animal), and the training in being "invisible" in plain sight and other...more
Probably more of a 3 ½, but I rounded up. It was a very clean read and didn’t fall into that 2nd book trap of just being a filler between 1 & 3. I guess my major complaint is that I have a problem with a festival to celebrating lying - everyone in the city has to lie during the festival, and is hoping their lie is the “big one” and will therefore come true – but it was an entertaining read. I was also hoping to read more about the museum and disappointed that there wasn't much of it in the b...more
ALSO not what I'm supposed to be reading...
...but TOO GOOD TO STOP. Just as exciting as "Museum of Thieves."
Friend, Upon Being Offered Book 1: "I don't really want to read a book for eight year olds."
Me (Out Loud): "Ha ha! Fair enough!"
Me (Secretly): "I don't mind still being eight years old...in all the magical and adventurous ways that count!"
One star deducted for my pet peeve, (view spoiler) . This may not be everyone's peeve, however....more
...but TOO GOOD TO STOP. Just as exciting as "Museum of Thieves."
Friend, Upon Being Offered Book 1: "I don't really want to read a book for eight year olds."
Me (Out Loud): "Ha ha! Fair enough!"
Me (Secretly): "I don't mind still being eight years old...in all the magical and adventurous ways that count!"
One star deducted for my pet peeve, (view spoiler) . This may not be everyone's peeve, however....more
Amazing world building and artful character building return with Lian Tanner’s second book in the Keeper’s trilogy!
Different Kinds of Oppression
In book 2 of this series, we find ourselves back in Jewel, mere weeks after the end of Museum of Thieves. As in the first book, we start off from Goldie’s perspective and again we see her in a sad state of affairs. This time she’s caring for her parents who are still ravaged mentally and physically from their time in the house of corrections. She’s doing...more
Different Kinds of Oppression
In book 2 of this series, we find ourselves back in Jewel, mere weeks after the end of Museum of Thieves. As in the first book, we start off from Goldie’s perspective and again we see her in a sad state of affairs. This time she’s caring for her parents who are still ravaged mentally and physically from their time in the house of corrections. She’s doing...more
This is the second book in the Keepers series, book one is theMuseum of Thieves. You need to read the first one otherwise this one will be confusing, especially the shifts in plot or references to the museum, Keepers, and Guardians from the city of Jewel. Some of the questions in the first book are answered such as who set off the bomb and we start to see why Goldie was chosen to be a Keeper - this is tied in with her discovering whose voice is in her head.
Goldie plays the hero as she sets off t...more
Goldie plays the hero as she sets off t...more
Goldie isn’t the only accomplished Liar and Thief to return in this sequel to Museum of Thieves. We get to experience a whole City of Liars. Shoot, even the City is a Liar. I adore the author of this children’s book series, I really do.
Lian Tanner’s sequel to the brilliant Museum of Thieves is among the better of Book Twos that I have read. In City of Lies Tanner sets us right back down into the City of Jewel and Goldie’s life. It is only a short while after the ending of Museum of Thieves and e...more
Lian Tanner’s sequel to the brilliant Museum of Thieves is among the better of Book Twos that I have read. In City of Lies Tanner sets us right back down into the City of Jewel and Goldie’s life. It is only a short while after the ending of Museum of Thieves and e...more
Goldie really gets into a mess this time doesn't she?
Goldie goes on an adventure, not really of her own making, and she has Toadspit and his little sis along, too.
This is a great sequel to the first book with many twists and turns. Ultimately Goldie gets out of most of it by the end, but you will have to read the third book to see if she is okay in the end.
I really liked the Festival of Lies. It was so cool and the cat is a great addition to the gang!
Old enemies surface after new enemies are fou...more
Goldie goes on an adventure, not really of her own making, and she has Toadspit and his little sis along, too.
This is a great sequel to the first book with many twists and turns. Ultimately Goldie gets out of most of it by the end, but you will have to read the third book to see if she is okay in the end.
I really liked the Festival of Lies. It was so cool and the cat is a great addition to the gang!
Old enemies surface after new enemies are fou...more
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Lyn is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Lyn herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team.
This book won the 2012 Aurealis Awards for Children's Fiction. I am so glad the awards are over so I can tell everyone about City of Lies here on Goodreads.
I have to admit, I went into this book with reservations. I hadn't read book one, had no idea who the characters were or...more
This book won the 2012 Aurealis Awards for Children's Fiction. I am so glad the awards are over so I can tell everyone about City of Lies here on Goodreads.
I have to admit, I went into this book with reservations. I hadn't read book one, had no idea who the characters were or...more
It's so much better written than the first book. It's quite mesmerizing and, with every step, it takes you down the dreamlike world, deeper and stranger. The author describes these dreamlike instances with such ease and beauty of the word. E.g. "The rain had stopped, but streams sprouted in all directions, as if the earth was so full of water that it was leaking."
Can't wait to read the next installment.
Can't wait to read the next installment.
OMG-you have got to be kidding me! I couldn't believe it when this book ended. I've already got "Path of Beasts" in my watch list. Way to keep us hanging! I really like this series. It's action-packed and the characters are great. There is tons of kid appeal here, of course. Kids love it when kids are in charge and manage to outsmart the grown-ups. It looks like the kids are definitely going to have to save the day in book 3--there's no one else!
Really liked this book! Accidentally started with the 2nd book and found out it was a series- hate it when that happens. But it still made sense and that's saying something. Just really creative ideas and likable characters. Love how it all twist together to make a great story. Unique magic- not your typical "wizard/magician" type. Can't wait to get a hold of the other books.
An excellent follow-up to Museum of Thieves. Certainly doesn't suffer from the usual 'middle book' problem of having a story which doesn't go anywhere.
A somewhat different tale of a city where on one day you have to tell lies and every now and then someone's lie will come true. A fascinating concept that I really liked. :)
Well done Lian! Can't wait for book 3!
A somewhat different tale of a city where on one day you have to tell lies and every now and then someone's lie will come true. A fascinating concept that I really liked. :)
Well done Lian! Can't wait for book 3!
Book two in the Book of the Keepers series. Goldie Roth now a trained thief and liar is trying to decide whether to be a Keeper to take care of her ill parents. Goldie's friend Toadspit's young sister is kidnapped forcing Goldie and Toadspit go after her.
A fun and exciting follow-up to Museum of Thieves. I don't think I like this one quite as much (some of my favourite characters from the first one are barely in this one), but it definitely sustains my interest in following these characters and their world.
It was good, but the characters weren't, well, characterized as much. I couldn't relate to Goldie, or Pounce, or be suspicious of the Fugleman, because their feelings weren't shown as well as it could've been. Also, it seemed to go to fast, and things were left for the third book that shouldn't have.
I had been eagerly anticipating this, the second book in one of my favourite series', ever since I finished the first book, just over a year ago, and I was incredibly excited to once again delve into the land that Lian Tanner created, to see life through Goldie Roth's eyes, and to live, for a little while, in a place of danger, intrigue, suspicion and, though not for all, love.
I loved every moment of this book, I finished it in 2 days flat and was exhilarated, thrilled, scared- often filled with...more
I loved every moment of this book, I finished it in 2 days flat and was exhilarated, thrilled, scared- often filled with...more
You know, I think I like this one even better than Museum of Thieves, which I reread to get up to speed. I liked so many things about this book, especially Mouse and the band of musicians and the Festival of Lies. I think my very favorite part was the premise of the Big Lies. What a fabulous concept! This was a rather magical read, and I am now impatiently waiting for book three.
Dear Lian Tanner,
Please revisit your first book to remind yourself HOW TO WRITE A GOD FORSAKEN ENDING!
I was actually sighing at frustrating at the last few chapters
Please revisit your first book to remind yourself HOW TO WRITE A GOD FORSAKEN ENDING!
I was actually sighing at frustrating at the last few chapters
Very very chilling, usually second books are the best part in a trilogy, absolutely love the new characters and the mystery in the new city of Spoke. Can't wait to finish the last book!
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Lian Tanner is a children's author and playwright. She was born in Tasmania and has lived there most of her life, except for three years teaching in Papua New Guinea and a year in Europe. Her fantasy novel Museum of Thieves is Book 1 in The Keepers Trilogy, and winner of the 2010 Aurealis Award for Children's Fiction. City of Lies won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Children's Fiction, and Path of Bea...more
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