Holy Terrors
core novel 2025 Little Thieves
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.29 (4,453 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 560 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250831170 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Holy Terrors concludes the Little Thieves trilogy roughly two years after Vanja brought down the cult she had once helped set in motion. Having stepped away from the court life and romantic entanglements of the earlier books, she now works alone as a vigilante, using her old thief's skills for her own private sense of justice rather than survival or ambition. That solitary existence ends when she is drawn into a new conspiracy reaching into the empire's seven royal families, a plot whose scope forces Vanja to confront allies and enemies from her past even as she tries to keep her current life, and the independence she has built for herself, from being pulled apart by obligations she thought she had left behind.
Where it sits
- Universe: Little Thieves
- Series: The Little Thieves Trilogy core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Margaret Owen
Notes
- From the series record (The Little Thieves Trilogy): A Grimm's "The Goose Girl" retelling told from the antagonist's point of view; Vanja Schmidt, raised by the gods Death and Fortune, impersonates a princess while moonlighting as a jewel thief. Holy Terrors (2025) concludes the trilogy.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Little Thieves Trilogy: position 3 of 3: previous Painted Devils (2023)
Sources
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