I have… an issue with books being comped as Six of Crows just because they feature a group pulling off a heist. Which I know is mostly trivial because it is a very popular book so if you use it as a comp – you’re almost guaranteed readers. But it doesn’t always work out the way you want it to.

So while I understand the comparison to Six of Crows, I also… don’t. But I tried to not let it affect how I read the book. I chose to do a hybrid read, not because I wasn’t enjoying the ebook; but because the audio narrator (Robbie Daymond) also narrated The Trials of Apollo, which I really enjoyed. 
 

It was quite interesting to see an issue/difference between the two editions. So, an earlier version of the e-arc had a hearing aid turned into a listening device. DeWitt changed it and there was a new version on NetGalley (I had to remove my version from Kindle and re-download, but no problem). 

The original arc had a scene where they used an old hearing aid and turned it into a listening device. Hearing aids are expensive? And they sort of.. treated it like a spy toy. I also thought it was weird/bad to only bring in mentions of the sister Kerry (whose hearing aid it was) when they could use her old hearing aid (I do believe she didn’t even know they were using it?). Especially as Kerry barely had a personality. The audio still had the hearing aid, but a later scene the hearing aid was changed to an AirPod turned communicator. 

I liked the characters and then there were times where they annoyed me (Gabriel and Morgan, I’m looking at you). The plot was okay, given that it was definitely a character-driven story. I think because DeWitt focused more on the characters (not a bad thing) the plot fell to the side a bit so the whole “heist” plot line wasn’t as clean or well-written as it could have been. It also felt… very Gossip Girl – the whole thing of teens running around and doing everything that they wanted to do.

I liked Jack for the most part. I did find him annoying but I like Daymond’s voice helped with that as he’s used to narrating another annoying character (Apollo/Lester). I think Jack and Remy were probably my favourites of the group and I liked their relationship a lot. It was sweet and well-written.