I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the Little Thieves Blog Tour hosted by TBR & Beyond Tours!
Check out my review below!
About the Book
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
Release Date: October 19, 2021
Genre: YA Fantasy
Synopsis
Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl…
Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love–and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele’s dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing Gisele’s life for herself.
The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed.
Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja’s tail, she’ll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life.
Margaret Owen, author of The Merciful Crow series, crafts a delightfully irreverent retelling of “The Goose Girl” about stolen lives, thorny truths, and the wicked girls at the heart of both.
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Review
Merciful Crow is one of my favorite YA Fantasy reads and so I was excited to get the chance to read and review Little Thieves.
Vanja is living a life not her own. For a year she has been posing as Princess Gisele and a servant while she works her way through thieving from them in order to make her escape from her Godmother’s before her 17th birthday when she’ll finally be deemed independent.
This book was fast-paced and I enjoyed the relationships Vanja built despite trying her best to keep them at a distance. Her end goal is to getaway and if she builds relationships that will only make it more difficult for her. When she’s cursed and only has two weeks to figure out how to break it, she is forced to rely on others to help her see that the choices she made in the past may be catching up to her now.
This book has adventure, friendship, and even a bit of romance. It isn’t as dark as Merciless Crow but it is still a unique story. I would recommend it to other YA fantasy readers because it’s got all the good parts of those kinds of stories. I can’t wait to read more from Margaret Owen in the future!
About the Author
Born and raised at the end of the Oregon Trail, Margaret Owen spent her childhood haunting the halls of Powell’s Books. After earning her degree in Japanese, her love of espresso called her north to Seattle, where she worked in everything from thrift stores to presidential campaigns. The common thread between every job can be summed up as: lessons were learned.
She now spends her days wrestling disgruntled characters onto the page, and negotiating a long-term hostage situation with her two monstrous cats. (There is surprisingly little difference between the two.)
In her free time, she enjoys exploring ill-advised travel destinations, and raising money for social justice nonprofits through her illustrations.
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Blog Tour Schedule
October 18th
Kait Plus Books – Interview
Betwixt The Sheets – Review
Nine Bookish Lives – Promo Post
Book Briefs – Review
October 19th
The Fictional Journal – Review
Nonbinary Knight Reads and Reviews – Review & Tik Tok
Confessions of a YA Reader – Review
October 20th
Luchia Houghton Blog – Review
The Bookish Coven – Review & Favorite Quotes
Balancing Books and Beauties – Review
The Book Dutchesses – Promo Post
October 21st
Stuck in Fiction – Top 5 Reasons to Read Little Thieves
Shelvesofstarlight – Review
thisbellereadstoo – Review, Favorite Quotes & Mood Board
Heylittlesiren – Review
October 22nd
Emelie’s Books – Review, Favorite Quotes & Mood Board
Rampant Reading Reviews – Review
The Clever Reader – Review
Kerri McBookNerd – Top 5 Reasons to Read Little Thieves & 15 Reactions While Reading Little Thieves
October 23rd
And On She Reads – Review & Top 5 Reasons to Read Little Thieves
thebookwiccan – Top 5 Reasons to Read Little Thieves & 15 Reactions While Reading Little Thieves
Chasing Chapters – Top 5 Reasons to Read Little Thieves & Creative post (Memes)
October 24th
A Court of Coffee and Books – Interview
Stuck in the Stacks – Review
Gwendalyn’s Books – Review
Reading Stewardess – Review & Playlist
Instagram Tour Schedule
October 18th
hoardingbooks.herdingcats – Review & Favorite Quotes
iambibliomane – Review
theink.slinger – Blogger’s Choice
ninebookishlives – Blogger’s Choice
bookbriefs – Blogger’s Choice
October 19th
chaibooksandthemoon – Book Look & Top 5 Reasons to Read Little Thieves
tbrandbeyond – Promo Post
nonbinaryknight_reads – Blogger’s Choice
confessionsofayareader – Blogger’s Choice
October 20th
pagcturncr – Review
luchiahoughtonblog – Blogger’s Choice
the_bookish_coven – Blogger’s Choice
balancing_books_and_beauties – Blogger’s Choice
thebookdutchesses – Blogger’s Choice
October 21st
wild.legends – Review, Mood Board & Top 5 Reasons to Read Little Thieves
tinybooknest – 15 Reactions While Reading Little Thieves
ignitereads – Review
feliciareads11 – Blogger’s Choice
shelvesofstarlight – Blogger’s Choice
heylittlesiren – Blogger’s Choice
October 22nd
thelindenbookie – Review
emmesbooks – Blogger’s Choice
rampant_reading – Blogger’s Choice
thecleverreader – Blogger’s Choice
kerri_mcbooknerd – Blogger’s Choice
October 23rd
fangirlpixiebooks – Promo Post
djreadsbooks – Playlist, Favorite Quotes & Tik Tok
thebookwiccan – Blogger’s Choice
chasingchapters_ – Blogger’s Choice
October 24th
shelf_blame – Review
stuck.in.the.stacks – Blogger’s Choice
acourtofcoffeeandbooks – Blogger’s Choice
skygoddess1 – Blogger’s Choice
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