City of Lies is essentially the story of that same girl learning to trust who she has become, but sadly neither the character work nor the world building entirely worked for me this time around. Museum of Thieves was a fantastic blend of fantasy and dystopia, with a society ruled by fear, a magical museum with deadly secrets, and a girl who had to break with everything she’d been taught to save the day. I adored Lian Tanner’s debut, Museum of Thieves, and was raring to read the second installment of her trilogy, but sadly City of Lies falls far short of the bar Tanner set with her first book. I hate not being able to like a book as much as I want to. She will need all her skills as a thief and a liar if she is to survive and save her friends. There, Goldie discovers some dangerous secrets-secrets that the child-stealers will kill to protect. Along the way, Toadspit too is captured, and Goldie is caught up in the Festival of Lies, where every word she says means something else and no one can be trusted. But although she desperately wants to be a Keeper, she will not leave her sick parents to do so.īut when Toadspit’s sister Bonnie is stolen, he and Goldie are forced to follow the child-stealers to the neighboring city of Spoke. Along with her friend Toadspit, she’s supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar.
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