City of Thieves Future Predictions

So far in my book the characters have already been in a bit of trouble. One has been caught for looting, while the other one has been caught for being a deserter. Miraculously, instead of being shot and killed, the colonel has sent them out on a quest to find 12 eggs. They need to find these eggs so the colonel's daughter can have a wedding cake for her wedding. This is not an easy task as eggs are rare and very expensive. Eventually the main characters, Lev and Kolya, end up at a black market where a tall, black-bearded, buff gentleman says he will sell them a dozen eggs. He seems like a very shady fellow because he beckons Lev and Kolya into a dark building where he will sell them the eggs and this is where I left off. I predict that this strange man will not have the eggs he says he has, mainly for two reasons. The first reason is that he seems a little too excited to get Lev and Kolya into the run down building. Even when Lev is hesitating and asking why he has to sell the eggs inside, the man keeps insisting and making up excuses to get them inside. The second reason is that I feel like it is too early in the book and too easy for them to just grab the 12 eggs without overcoming any obstacles and just go home and live on.

City of Thieves Setting

I have just started reading a new book, City of Thieves, and so far it is very interesting and suspenseful. The book is set in a city in Russia called Leningrad (now know as St. Petersburg) during World War II. In this setting, the city is surrounded by the Germans, who cut off all of their food and supplies, leaving them starving. An example of the city's conditions is, "The shutters themselves had been torn down for firewood in November. There was no more scrap wood in Leningrad. Every wood sign, the slats of the park benches, the floorboards of shattered buildings - all gone and burning in someone's stove. The pigeons were missing, too, caught and stewed in melted ice from the Neva." This shows just how desperate they are. Everyone is scavenging for anything they can use to keep themselves warm. The citizens are even catching pigeons to eat since there is nothing else that they can snack on.