Little Thieves follows Vanja, the adopted daughter of Death and Fortune, and she's got to pledge her life to one of them before she turns seventeen. The only problem is that she's not about that life, With a stolen set of enchanted pearls, she takes on the life of her former mistress, Princess Gisele and her servant Greta when she takes the pearls off. Things are all well and good as she steals in the attempt to accumulate enough money to get the heck out of there. That is until she crosses paths with (and ends up pissing off) a god who curses her. Unless she can break the curse by proving she's not just a greedy little thief, she'll die.
This book is quite long for a YA book, 500+ pages. Even though I was always interested in the story, at times it was slow. That said, I never wanted to give up. I'm glad I didn't because the last part of the book is just an avalanche of "whoa" that took my review from liked it a lot to freaking loved it! I think it you can overcome the sheer size of this book, the story is definitely worth it. Vanja is a pretty morally grey character, but because of her tortured past, we just can't help but root for her, especially when the villain is just such an abhorrent sack of crap.
This book is quite long for a YA book, 500+ pages. Even though I was always interested in the story, at times it was slow. That said, I never wanted to give up. I'm glad I didn't because the last part of the book is just an avalanche of "whoa" that took my review from liked it a lot to freaking loved it! I think it you can overcome the sheer size of this book, the story is definitely worth it. Vanja is a pretty morally grey character, but because of her tortured past, we just can't help but root for her, especially when the villain is just such an abhorrent sack of crap.