Vanja is in a bit of a pinch; she's been impersonating a princess to comfortably steal from other nobility. She's close to her monetary goal, but her luck starts to take a turn for the worse. The princess's betrothed is set to return sooner than expected, she's in danger of soon being discovered as the thief by way of a magic spyglass, and oh, she's been cursed by a minor god to die in 2 weeks as rubies and pearls sprout all over her body. Her godmothers are Death and Fortune and would easily be able to get her out of trouble, but it's because of them that she began amassing a small fortune in the first place. She wants to be free, and relying on them means being a servant of one of them until she dies. She also once believed that they loved her unconditionally, but that's another matter.
Little Thieves! What a wonderful piece of storytelling. It's been a few months since I've been so completely absorbed by a world like this one. I adored it; the story, the characters. Especially Vanja. The tone of voice with which she tells the story is pitch perfect; it's entertaining and empathetic and like, the deductive way she evaluates her surroundings and attaches little stories to them is just so good. She's genuinely funny too, like I was not expecting this line:
"All in all, he gives the impression of a collection of billiard cues that unionized to solve crimes."
Oh and,
"Minkja isn't so much a city as a hostile architectural takeover."
Both of those quotes are from the first five chapters of the book, and it only gets better.
Little Thieves! What a wonderful piece of storytelling. It's been a few months since I've been so completely absorbed by a world like this one. I adored it; the story, the characters. Especially Vanja. The tone of voice with which she tells the story is pitch perfect; it's entertaining and empathetic and like, the deductive way she evaluates her surroundings and attaches little stories to them is just so good. She's genuinely funny too, like I was not expecting this line:
"All in all, he gives the impression of a collection of billiard cues that unionized to solve crimes."
Oh and,
"Minkja isn't so much a city as a hostile architectural takeover."
Both of those quotes are from the first five chapters of the book, and it only gets better.