Heist Society by Ally Carter

Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)

by Ally Carter

When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie travelled 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.

But now her dad's life is on the line, and Kat must go back to the world she tried so hard to escape...

Reviewed by Leah on

5 of 5 stars

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Ally Carter is one of the most popular writers in the divide between kids fiction and YA. Her books sort of fall into the middle there and they’re perfect for any age group. Heist Society is my first Ally Carter novel and oh gosh, I just loved it. Heist novels are my jam. Whether it’s high-stakes heists like Six of Crows or a more lighter approach like Heist Society, I love them.

Heist Society dives straight in to Katarina’s life at Colgan school, as we see her being expelled for stealing the principals car and wedging it into a fountain. It’s all a ploy, of course, as W W Hale the Fifth shows up to take her home and we find out Kat is one of the best thieves around, and comes from a whole family of thieves. (BTW, I feel bad calling them thieves, and I wish there was a better word.) The whole thing leads Kat back into a life of crime - her dad needs her help as a mean crime boss threatens his life as he assumes Kat’s dad stole his paintings and he tasks Kat with the job of stealing them back, which she obviously accepts because who wouldn’t try to help their family?

I loved this book so much. It was all so fun and the jumping from location to location was incredible. I loved the crew Kat put together and I hope that’s a feature in the next two books and I LOVE Hale. I am desperate to know his name, but I assume that will be a running joke through the series. I’m intrigued to see if they also keep up the part of the mysterious Visili Romani. I have a few ideas who it may be but I have no idea if I’m correct.

This was honestly such a fun novel. I’ve not had this much fun reading in a while and it’s so nice to read something that’s light and fun with a bit of thrill added into the mix also. I can’t wait to see what this group gets up to next time, and I just love Ally Carter’s writing. I have no idea why it’s taken me so long to read one of her books but believe me when I say I am now going to devour everything she’s ever written so fast, because Heist Society was incredible!

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