Lydia is understandably stressed out by the accusations; starts feeling persecuted and the like. But she is so ridiculously snappy with Frankie - not just once, but twice, when Frankie tries to talk to her. It’s not entirely unrealistic, as with everything concerning Lydia’s character, but it doesn’t make her likeable or interesting. Thief!' centres around a character named Lydia who is labelled as a thief by a bully at her school. Lydia tries to escape the bullying and retreats to the moors near her home. Whilst walking through the moors Lydia is transported to the future and is met with a much changed, cruel world ruled by a familiar tyrant. I don't want to give anything away, so I'll stop there!

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A six day stay at hospital. What, did she get pneumonia or something? Lydia seems to suffer from the conveniently-passing-out trope.If only he [Daniel Henson] had some family,” said a second man’s voice. “Then we could kidnap his wife or children and have something to bargain with.” Time Travel: - largely forwards/future Time Travel story? - Yes Family relations - Yes Main Character Identity: - Female I didn’t mind Lydia in this book, and the prose wasn’t great, but entirely tolerable, as long as you ignore all the exclamation points. Lydia had found someone like her: someone who loved comics and carrots, someone who hated everything with cabbage in it, and who thought that circus clowns were downright boring.”

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And finally, I just want to whinge about Lydia’s character...nothing wrong here, I just didn’t grow to like her much. Her reason for declaring Frankie her ‘best friend’ after three weeks is because:I LOVES THIS BOOK SO MUCH, IT IS BRILLANT. The book it about a girl who just moved to a new town and begins a new school. she gets pressured to steal a trophy to be a part of a group. she gets framed and ends up running away. and goes to the future, where she sees her brother as the master of a town and is horrible to everyone, because of what happened to his sister. The whole sort of moral message here seems to be ‘don’t be mad at all these people’, or something to that tune. But there isn’t really any conflict here. The moment Lydia is propelled into the future, and realizes what is up, she wants to stop it. She doesn’t miss a beat when she comes home. The conflict here is not internal; Lydia realizing hate is not a good thing, but entirely external. She finds out the truth about Danny and Old Lyddy, and then it’s off to the past, be all sunshine and smiles. I don’t really feel like any lesson has been taught. I don’t know. The delivery of any kind of message here is sloppy at best.