"When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre... to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria... to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own - scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind.
Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, the gorgeous Hale, appears, pulling her back into the world she has only just escaped. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster's priceless art collection has been stolen, and he wants it returned. Now. Only a master thief could have pulled off this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat's dad needs her help.
Kat's solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and, hopefully, just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's (very crooked) history. And, with any luck, she just might be able to steal her life back along the way."
Review:
This book is for a certain kind of girl. If you're looking for a book about a girl who gets saved by the handsome prince (or in this generation, a vampire), then this is not the book for you. However, if you're the kind of girl, like me, who wishes that female characters nowadays should have some type of backbone, where they hold the cards and are downright just completely bad ass, then you NEED to read this. Kat reminds me of a young Catwoman (Katwoman?) and I love her self confidence and her skills. I was hoping for more in her relationship with Hale, but I understand that this book is for 13-14 year old pre-adolescent and that the author needed to keep that kind of content in check. All in all, this book was really good. Forget wanting to be a part of High Society, I want to be in the Heist Society.
Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, the gorgeous Hale, appears, pulling her back into the world she has only just escaped. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster's priceless art collection has been stolen, and he wants it returned. Now. Only a master thief could have pulled off this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat's dad needs her help.
Kat's solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and, hopefully, just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's (very crooked) history. And, with any luck, she just might be able to steal her life back along the way."
Review:
This book is for a certain kind of girl. If you're looking for a book about a girl who gets saved by the handsome prince (or in this generation, a vampire), then this is not the book for you. However, if you're the kind of girl, like me, who wishes that female characters nowadays should have some type of backbone, where they hold the cards and are downright just completely bad ass, then you NEED to read this. Kat reminds me of a young Catwoman (Katwoman?) and I love her self confidence and her skills. I was hoping for more in her relationship with Hale, but I understand that this book is for 13-14 year old pre-adolescent and that the author needed to keep that kind of content in check. All in all, this book was really good. Forget wanting to be a part of High Society, I want to be in the Heist Society.
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