This was just a failure to connect with me. It's a heist book, but with so many character PoVs, it was kind of hard to become invested in any individuThis was just a failure to connect with me. It's a heist book, but with so many character PoVs, it was kind of hard to become invested in any individual. Or even of any group. I mean, I kinda like Loch. And Kail. And the others. But not strongly and not in a way that compels me to keep reading. And part of it may be that I liked at least one of the investigators as much as I liked any of the heist team. So having my loyalties split between him and Loch made me even more ambiguous than I already was.
I like a good heist story, mind. But I like them when I'm firmly engaged by the heisters for one reason or another (like with the Robin Hood theme of Hustle or the sheer competence porn of Ocean's Eleven, for example). I have to want them to succeed and in this story, at the 50% mark, I just didn't care. So there's a manuscript stolen from Loch. Meh. She seems well-off enough without it and I'd just as soon her actions be about taking the scum who stole it down as about retrieving a treasure I couldn't care less about—a heritage, by the way, that she explicitly plans to sell on acquisition.
So no rating because the writing is good, the pacing excellent, the characters interesting enough. I just didn't connect to the story and don't want to hold that against the book....more
This is just really not my thing. It has a strong voice and seems well-enough written (for the chapter I read), but I kind of hated the main protagoniThis is just really not my thing. It has a strong voice and seems well-enough written (for the chapter I read), but I kind of hated the main protagonist and her mother almost right from the get-go. I wanted to slap them both and settled for closing the book, instead. No rating as this is a highly personal reaction and I didn't get very far at all....more
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