This book was disappointing for me. It had all the ingredients of something I should love: con artists, noble drama, magic and mystery.

However, I found I was confused about what was happening and who everyone was for most of the time (I’m not great at remembering names and there were a lot of complicated names), I didn’t really connect to any of the characters or care about what was happening and I didn’t think the writing was great.

I kept going because of the mystery element but I just found the story didn’t really focus on the elements that I wanted. The heist was more of a backdrop for a whole bunch of other stuff which I won’t go into because spoilers.

So overall I didn’t think it was bad, just didn’t deliver what I was wanting.