Quick Stats
Age Rating: 14+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Little Thieves was one of my favorite books I read in November. Vanja is an incredible character; Margaret Owen’s writing is breathtaking; and the world and story swept me up from the start.
Little Thieves follows Vanja, the goddaughter of the Goddesses Death and Fortune, as she fights to free herself from a curse—she must make up for all she has stolen by the new moon, lest she become nothing more than a pile of jewels. She has two weeks.
With the help of a shapeshifting demigod Vanja struggles to figure out how, exactly, she’s supposed to break this curse. With a charming prefect trying to track her down to bring her to justice for all she’s stolen, and a murderous fiance who wants to kill her even before the curse does, shennanigans ensue.
I am awful at these little recaps. I promise it’s better than I make it sound.
One of the things that drew me to this book was that it has demi rep. I was seeing it lauded for that a ton on instagram, and while it did have that rep, I was a little disappointed. I was seeing so many posts saying it had great demi/ace rep, and I had just read The Love Hypothesis, that I had really high expectations. And don’t get me wrong, the rep that was there was really well done, but it literally was only one paragraph. Both main characters are demi, and they have a conversation about it that lasts half a page, and then it’s never addressed again. Which is fine. The book itself never claims to have a ton of rep and Margaret Owen doesn’t claim it does either, it was just the way I saw it recommended a on instagram was a little misleading.
So: There is ace/demi rep! It is there! It is really well addressed! But it is not a large part of the story and only comes up once. I still loved that it was there, I just was expecting a little more of it.
I love morally gray characters, and Vanja is 100% one of my favorites. She’s damaged, and she’s going to look out for herself, no matter who she has to hurt in order to do so. But she also is a genuinely good person. She does care about others and the good of the world, she just puts herself first, because that’s what she has had to do in order to survive. But now, in order to survive, she has to do the opposite. Seeing her internal struggle to come to terms with what that meant made her feel like a truly well written character.
I also loved the juxtaposition of Vanja’s morally gray me before everyone else and Emeric’s incessant do-gooder sunshine personality. Both of them experienced trauma and they reacted differently, and seeing each of them interact with the other and learn from the other was really cool.
I absolutely adored every character in this book (aside from the obvious evil villain). They were all well written and engaging, and the ways that they interacted with each other and balanced each other out was just…immaculate. Perfection. So. Freaking. Good.
I cannot express how much I loved this book and how much you need to read it.
Age Rating: 14+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Little Thieves was one of my favorite books I read in November. Vanja is an incredible character; Margaret Owen’s writing is breathtaking; and the world and story swept me up from the start.
Little Thieves follows Vanja, the goddaughter of the Goddesses Death and Fortune, as she fights to free herself from a curse—she must make up for all she has stolen by the new moon, lest she become nothing more than a pile of jewels. She has two weeks.
With the help of a shapeshifting demigod Vanja struggles to figure out how, exactly, she’s supposed to break this curse. With a charming prefect trying to track her down to bring her to justice for all she’s stolen, and a murderous fiance who wants to kill her even before the curse does, shennanigans ensue.
I am awful at these little recaps. I promise it’s better than I make it sound.
One of the things that drew me to this book was that it has demi rep. I was seeing it lauded for that a ton on instagram, and while it did have that rep, I was a little disappointed. I was seeing so many posts saying it had great demi/ace rep, and I had just read The Love Hypothesis, that I had really high expectations. And don’t get me wrong, the rep that was there was really well done, but it literally was only one paragraph. Both main characters are demi, and they have a conversation about it that lasts half a page, and then it’s never addressed again. Which is fine. The book itself never claims to have a ton of rep and Margaret Owen doesn’t claim it does either, it was just the way I saw it recommended a on instagram was a little misleading.
So: There is ace/demi rep! It is there! It is really well addressed! But it is not a large part of the story and only comes up once. I still loved that it was there, I just was expecting a little more of it.
I love morally gray characters, and Vanja is 100% one of my favorites. She’s damaged, and she’s going to look out for herself, no matter who she has to hurt in order to do so. But she also is a genuinely good person. She does care about others and the good of the world, she just puts herself first, because that’s what she has had to do in order to survive. But now, in order to survive, she has to do the opposite. Seeing her internal struggle to come to terms with what that meant made her feel like a truly well written character.
I also loved the juxtaposition of Vanja’s morally gray me before everyone else and Emeric’s incessant do-gooder sunshine personality. Both of them experienced trauma and they reacted differently, and seeing each of them interact with the other and learn from the other was really cool.
I absolutely adored every character in this book (aside from the obvious evil villain). They were all well written and engaging, and the ways that they interacted with each other and balanced each other out was just…immaculate. Perfection. So. Freaking. Good.
I cannot express how much I loved this book and how much you need to read it.