Early Review – Owl and the Tiger Thieves (The Adventures of Owl, Book 4) by Kristi Charish (3.5/5 stars)

Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: 432 pages
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
Release Date: May 7, 2018
ASIN: B06ZYGFNGV
Stand Alone or Series: 4th book in the Adventures of Owl series
Source: eGalley from Netgalley.com
Rating: 3.5/5 stars

“Through no fault of her own, Alix has found herself essential to the fate of the world as we know it. She didn’t mean for this to happen—she was quite happy being merely the notorious antiquities thief, and ex-archeologist, known as Owl.

However, years ago, Owl reluctantly entered the secret world of the supernatural. Her goals: complete one job, escape one bounty on her head, continue her thieving in peace.

Fast forward to today. Now, she has become a key player in a brutal paranormal civil war that is rapidly getting out of hand. The leader of one of these factions—a lethal opponent called the Electric Samurai—grows more powerful by the second. To stop him, Owl sets out to find the long-lost, legendary group known as the Tiger Thieves.

But will it be too little too late? One thing Owl misses about “normal” archaeology: there are few emergencies with thousand-year-old relics.”

This is the 4th book in the Adventures of Owl series. Originally I had heard there were going to be 4 books in this series, but from the way this book ended there has to be at least one more book planned in this series. This is a very fun series and this book continues that trend. I really enjoyed it; it was fast-paced and fun.

We get to visit a lot of amazing locations, go on some amazing quests with Owl, and there is a ton of action. We spend a lot of time with Artemis this book and for the majority of the book Owl is trying to figure out a way to get the Electric Samurai armor off of Rynn.

I do have a few complaints. The first is that Owl just doesn’t really grow or change much as a character; she doesn’t seem to ever learn from her mistakes. The second is that this book suffers from a typical UF heroine issue; the heroine is just always completely run ragged and never gets a break or takes care of herself. This is an issue in a number of UF books and reading these types of books always make me feel exhausted out of sympathy for the heroine.

The last issue I had was that I did get a bit sick of Owl constantly getting a bag thrown over her head and getting dragged away somewhere; this happened many many times in this book and was used way too much as a plot device.

Overall, despite some things I didn’t like about the story, this was still an enjoyable urban fantasy and I would recommend. I keep hoping Owl is going to “grow up” a bit and be treated a bit better by the story at some point. I plan on reading the next book in the series, but if it’s more of the same I probably won’t continue with this series.

This book goes towards the following reading challenges:
– New Release Reading Challenge
– Goodreads Reading Challenge