Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen
It’s been nearly two years since Vanja brought down the cult she started, and she’s still paying the price. As the Pfennigeist, she bucks the law in order to help the desperate and haunt the corrupt all across the empire—and no matter what, she works alone.
But an impossible killer is tearing through royalty, and leaving Vanja’s signature red penny on every victim. Suddenly the Pfennigeist is no longer a folk hero but a nightmare. When even the Blessed Empress falls, the empire’s seven royal families must gather to elect her successor within a matter of weeks, or risk the collapse of reality itself… even though it puts every house in the killer’s sights.
Vanja tells herself she’s wading into the royalty’s vicious games only to save the name she made, and the loved ones also in jeopardy. But the Order of Prefects has also put their sharpest official on the case, the one who swore he’d always find Vanja—until she broke his heart. Journeyman Prefect Emeric Conrad may no longer be the boy Vanja knew, but they’ll have to work together one last time to have any chance of surviving the deadly catastrophe coming for them all.
With bloody conspiracy, sinister magic, and old adversaries closing in, it will take everything Vanja has to save not just the people she loves, but the future she’s fought for. In this thrilling final chapter of the Indie Next series Little Thieves, New York Times-bestselling author Margaret Owen shows us the pain and beauty of choosing which demons to face, and which to forgive.
This was a great ending, but I’m also super sad to leave these characters.
Holy Terrors is a book three so there could be spoilers from the other books below.
I’m going to keep this pretty short. The book takes place about one and a half to two years after Vanja left Emeric. I was surprised to see what both had been up to in that time. They end up working together when so many royals are killed. But things are not good between them and it gets awkward a lot. I actually loved a couple of the new characters. There are a lot of deaths including a person I really liked. A lot is Vanja really figuring out who she wants to be with her family, friends, and love.
I gave this book 5 stars.
Thank you to Edelweiss for my earc.
Have you read this? Is it on your TBR?
