Solid Fairytale Retelling!

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This is a retelling of a lesser known fairytale, “The Goose Girl” and I LOVE that the retelling trend is expanding outwards to go beyond the fairytales that everyone knows! Vanja Schmidt is an absolutely delightful morally grey protagonist who is witty and flawed and full of real human emotions and insecurities. The side characters are full of life as well and Owen does a great job of bringing this world alive.

I thought that the magic rules along with bringing in the God realm made sense and operated well within the plot line. Owen's writing style is entertaining and I fully enjoyed listening to the audiobook of LITTLE THIEVES. This will definitely be added to my list of titles I suggest to teens at the library, I think they'll like it.

This was a great novel as a standalone, so I'm not entirely sure there needs to be a sequel to it, but I'll read it regardless, I need more Vanja antics in my life.