The Maiden Thief

A Tor.Com Original

By: Melissa Marr

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

The Maiden Thief by multiple NYT and internationally best-selling author Melissa Marr is a dark fantasy novelette about a teenager whose town is plagued by the annual disappearances of girls and young women.

©2016 Melissa Marr (P)2016 Melissa Marr

Great short story

Excellent short mystery! I'd love to hear more by Melissa Marr and Carla Mercer-Meyer does an excellent job with the narration!

Short but fulfilling.

I've read a lot of this authors previous work and really enjoyed them all, so jumped straight into this when I got it. While it's an extremely short book, it still packed a punch.

The plot centers on Verena, who is living in a place where young maidens go missing every year at the same time. She isn't happy about the situation and writes an article about it. All this does is to cause the kidnapper to target her family. What happens when she comes face to face with the kidnapper?

That's all I'll say about the plot as it's so short and I don't want to spoil it! I will say that it is a well written and entertaining read. Marr has given this tale a really dark feel, an almost Grimm fairytale feel, which I liked. The heroine, Verena, was well developed for such a short book and was kinda kick ass in all honesty. She didn't want to stand by and ignore what was happening and did something about it, even if it did cause the kidnapper to look to her, it was still nice that she stood up for the girls!

In all, a good short story, though I wanted it to be longer ;) Melissa Marr never fails to deliver!

This is the first book I've listened to narrated by Carla Mercer-Meyer and I thoroughly enjoyed it. She gave a solid performance and had the right tone for the right time. he drew me into the book and kept my attention throughout.

*I received a copy of this for review. This in no way affected my thoughts.*

Fairy tales

It reminds me of this fairy tale I read, about a maiden who took in a girl to protect her in heaven and the girl was left alone one day and went through a door and died. The maiden brought her back to life in the end. That and the story of the 12 swans.

Pretty good.

I enjoyed the story, though the thief's identity was all too obvious. My reason for giving it 3 stars is the speed at which we learned everything. Melissa Marr's writing doesn't usually feel that stunted. I wanted more sensory details, rich dialogue, emotions.

Overall though, it was a quick listen, worth the hour.

The storyline was great

It reminded me of a fairy tale, but very dark. Works written in first person aren't usually my favorite, but this one was written well. The main character irritated me with her submissiveness at first, but later I realized it was necessary.
I would have liked it to be a longer and more drawn out story. The plot was such a good one that it could have been stretched to add more thrill. I was still very pleased with it.