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Book Review: The Thief and the Wild, by Seann Barbour

Cover of The Thief and the Wild by Seann Barbour, featuring a three-eyed cat on a tree limb in the foreground, in front of a steamboat on the water, with a city on the background.

This Southern-flavored steampunk fantasy is as easy to sink into as a hammock, with a nice breezy tone most of the time, narrated by a sympathetic protagonist with a wry point of view, relating an exciting plot that moves around a bayou town, up and down, and eventually strikes out into the wilderness, with a cataclysmic confrontation at the climax.