Book Review: Heist Society

Title: Heist Society
Author: Ally Carter
Series: Heist Society
Genre: YA/Mystery/Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.95
My rating: 4

When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip 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. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected.

Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have pulled 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.

For Kat, there is only one 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 history--and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way.

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Great cover, right?!  Or maybe you need to read the book to really appreciate the cover.  I love it when I read a book and the image on the cover is a perfect fit with the image the author is trying to create.  I love the Heist Society covers, especially the images you can see through the sunglasses.  It's kinda perfect.  

Have any of you read the Gallagher Girls series?  Well if you liked Gallagher Girls you'll definitely like Heist Society.  Kat decides to leave the life of a thief.  Not so easily done when it is the family business.  When she decides to come back to the life she realizes how much she missed out on but is it enough to convince her to stay? Will she be the kind of thief that steals for selfish reasons or the kind of thief that restores property to it's rightful owners? With the help of her not quite boyfriend Hale and other members of the family business can Kat save her father from certain death?  

I really like this series.  I like that it is clever without being too clever that you aren't even sure if you are following.  Maybe the outcome surprises you but maybe it doesn't.  I personally never quite predicted the outcomes in any of the books.  But I was also never confused by the outcome.  It's a really nice balance that makes for a very enjoyable read.  

Here is the list of the series as it is completed so far:

Heist Society
Uncommon Criminals
Perfect Scoundrels