Little Thieves
Little Thieves is a 2021 dark fantasy and fairy-tale retelling novel by Margaret Owen. Key subjects include teenage girls, thieves, gods and blessing and cursing.
Open Library readers give it an average of 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 27 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 7 editions.
It runs to roughly 448 pages — 8–9 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Little Thieves
"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele's sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja's tail, she'll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life."--Amazon.
Quick answers
Who wrote Little Thieves?
Little Thieves was written by Margaret Owen and first published in 2021.
What genre is Little Thieves?
It is usually shelved as Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retellings, Myth & Legend Fiction and Fae & Fairy Fiction.
How long is Little Thieves?
The median edition has 448 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Little Thieves?
Readers who like it often enjoy Ella Enchanted, The Ballad of Never After and As Old As Time.
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