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Little Thieves
by Margaret Owen
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/ 5 stars
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an eARC of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
Little Thieves is a retelling of The Goose Girl, a story about stolen lives, thorny truths and wicked girls.
I was familiar with The Goose Girl prior to reading Little Thieves, but couldn’t really recollect what it was about. While reading Little Thieves I started to recognize the premise of this story but it was so much better than from the little I remembered from reading the original when I was younger!
From the very first sentence your attention was grabbed and oh my it didn’t let you go. The way the whole story was written was just perfect and it fit so good with the words, characters and the world build. The world was super vivid to image, while hardly anything about it was explained or giving via info-dump!
You read everything from Vanja’s POV and the little jabs, sarcastic thoughts and everything make it so much fun to read! It was almost as if Vanja was telling you her story of what happened instead of reading it as it happens. Also, the way the seven “Tales” are told throughout the story with important backstory information was really impressive how they added so much to the present timeline and plot line. By those tales being written in third-person it almost seemed detached from the main plot, and it fitted really well with how the story flowed.
The cast of characters we are introduced to in this book are vastly different form each other but they fit together like clockwork! Vanja is an anti-heroine that I loved loved loved! Her personality, everything she did was just amazing. Ragne was just the perfect best friend and side-kick to Vanja and being a shapeshifter and seeing her come to live and learning about life was delightful. Emeric seemed like a timid, shy person but he is such an amazing shapen character who will surprise you every turn of the page!
The ending did feel a little bit weaker than the rest of the story, might’ve been because it was a little rushed? I don’t know why exactly I got that feeling, because I still greatly enjoyed the ending.
Overall, I absolutely adored reading this story. It felt like such a complete book with everything you want from a fantasy in it!
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an eARC of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
Little Thieves is a retelling of The Goose Girl, a story about stolen lives, thorny truths and wicked girls.
I was familiar with The Goose Girl prior to reading Little Thieves, but couldn’t really recollect what it was about. While reading Little Thieves I started to recognize the premise of this story but it was so much better than from the little I remembered from reading the original when I was younger!
From the very first sentence your attention was grabbed and oh my it didn’t let you go. The way the whole story was written was just perfect and it fit so good with the words, characters and the world build. The world was super vivid to image, while hardly anything about it was explained or giving via info-dump!
You read everything from Vanja’s POV and the little jabs, sarcastic thoughts and everything make it so much fun to read! It was almost as if Vanja was telling you her story of what happened instead of reading it as it happens. Also, the way the seven “Tales” are told throughout the story with important backstory information was really impressive how they added so much to the present timeline and plot line. By those tales being written in third-person it almost seemed detached from the main plot, and it fitted really well with how the story flowed.
The cast of characters we are introduced to in this book are vastly different form each other but they fit together like clockwork! Vanja is an anti-heroine that I loved loved loved! Her personality, everything she did was just amazing. Ragne was just the perfect best friend and side-kick to Vanja and being a shapeshifter and seeing her come to live and learning about life was delightful. Emeric seemed like a timid, shy person but he is such an amazing shapen character who will surprise you every turn of the page!
The ending did feel a little bit weaker than the rest of the story, might’ve been because it was a little rushed? I don’t know why exactly I got that feeling, because I still greatly enjoyed the ending.
Overall, I absolutely adored reading this story. It felt like such a complete book with everything you want from a fantasy in it!