Reviews

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

caitriona_w's review against another edition

So slow and boring

xjiro's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

local_hat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

sanne_k's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

joblo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Cute! I don’t typically enjoy books about teenagers and I almost DNF-ed it at the beginning but I ended up enjoying it. Definitely takes a minute to get into the story/warm up to the main character, but her voice is fun and the characters all feel very human. 

I love high fantasy but get really annoyed when authors build bigotry into the world (like you can write about dragons but people are still sexist/homophobic? Lack of imagination, tbh) so I enjoyed the casual representation here!

I felt like this was a good standalone story but I might pick up the sequel eventually to revisit the world/characters bc they’re so fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

melinum's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

briannam177's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

lisamchuk's review against another edition

4.0

Well I quite liked this! It’s a fantasy fairy tale, but of a slightly different region, and the mix of low gods and magic were interesting. The heroine is quite flawed but we cheer for her redemption (because we see parts of ourselves in her), and the romance(s) were both predictable and unpredictable and the diversity was welcome. I’m looking forward to reading more in the series!

sophiem14's review against another edition

2.0

DNF. I wanted to like this but I just could not get into it no matter how much of it I read. The world building had so much potential but felt cluttered and hard to follow.

elsebeok's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0