his is a review from SFX Magazine, June 2007.

"It's no surprise that Emily Gee comes from a writing family. Reading the tantalising first page of Thief shows that this is no ordinary debut novel: the author is skilled enough to be beguiling in just five paragraphs. That first page introduces Melke, a wraith. She should be invisible but somehow there's a huge snarling hound at the the base of the tree she's stuck in that can see her--and it wants a stolen necklace back...

"Written in light airy prose, Thief is an addictive story. These are ordinary people facing some dangerous problems. There's oodles of angst as Melke realises the consequences of her well-intentioned theft; and ladles of tension when she realises how little time she has to put things right. Pleasingly standalone, gorgeously indulgent and hopelessly romantic."