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“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
“But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”
Let me start off by saying this is sooo not my usual book. It's not a supernatural thriller with monsters and vampires and assassins. Magic doesn't make even the smallest appearance. Maybe that's why I liked it so much. It is a well thought out and beautifully written piece of thief fiction like nothing I've ever read before. I can't speak to how unique it is for it's genre or if the techniques are true, but they seemed believable to me.
Because of the hurried pace of the book, you really felt them working against the clock to accomplish their mission. I've seen other people complain about the lack of description in the various locales, but that didn't bother me at all. Kat is so well traveled that I don't think she would marvel at the beauty of Paris anymore, even if we just wanted her to for our benefit.
The magic of this book for me comes from hint of romance but actual lack of it. I don't really like books where the focus is on who loves who. It was about family and responsibility and doing, literally, things you wouldn't normally do to protect those you love. It's about using a very special skill set to do good in the world instead of evil. I really liked it.
