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.
I love a good fairy tale retelling, and the one that showed me how great they can be was The Goose Girl. Like every other one I've read, though, that one was from the point of view of the wronged princess. I've never read a version from the point of view of the maid before. I was very excited to try this one and see how her behaviour could be justified. After all, we all know the maid was shiftless and ungrateful, don't we?
Little Thieves publishes on the 5th of October, 2021, in both the US and the UK with the same cover. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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