But Hyeon is suddenly thrust into the dark and dangerous world of court politics when someone murders four women in a single night, and the prime suspect is Hyeon’s closest friend and mentor. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps finally win her estranged father’s approval. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. This week’s theme is: Authors I Haven’t Read, But Want To!.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Her flaws were still her flaws and I loved that. There was a lot of character growth from her during her journey here, but not in a way that made her an entirely different person. I really appreciated Vanja as a main character and narrator and how Margaret Owen wrote and developed her character. The premise here was excellent and the execution mostly followed along those lines. Little Thieves was fun! And it also did wonders for unlikable main characters who don’t have one (1) minute of peace 😀
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. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. 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. 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.
The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place.
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. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele’s dutiful servant up until a year ago. 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.
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