In a world where your status is everything and ratings determine how well your life is, what happens when it all crumbles down? Think of that one episode of Black Mirror with Bryce Dallas Howard.... and throw in a school of thieves. Ella Karman makes a debut on the Social Stock Exchange and her entire life, she’s been hidden until then and completely raised to be the perfect way to boost her parent’s ratings. However, the more time she spends in society the more she realizes that her “friends” are not her friends and the love she craves from her parents will never be there. She finds solace in a cute Australian surfer dude named Adam... but even he isn’t who he seems to be. After a disastrous incident in which her friends betray her and her rankings completely tank, Ella is sent off and upon her return her parents force her to attend her birthday party on a ship.... which explodes and Ella is the only one to make it out alive. However, the entire time she has had an escape plan, and that is to go to the secret school known as Keystone where she will take up a new identity and train to become a thief. There she finds that she is an anomaly amongst the students and that one particular, very attractive boy, is her new rival, Garrett. Ella now has to adjust to her new identity and deal with the trauma of her past. she has done and witnessed unforgivable things, and is still reeling form the betrayal and hurt she faced. She hopes that with this new identity she can get a new start, yet when she is finally sent out on a mission...... Adam is there and apparently his real name is Nash. Now Ella finds herself stuck between her ex Adam/Nash and the mysterious yet irritating partner for her mission, Garrett. Filled with lies and deceptions and mysterious, Ella must now figure out who she can trust and where she will go next.

The overall story was okay, I found the premise of the story interesting. The story had a lot of potential and a lot of interesting aspects that could be further expanded on. I just found myself disliking everyone.... I don’t know why. My feelings about Ella fluctuated between liking her to questioning her. One moment she’s determined to go about with achieving her goals and getting herself together, and the next she’s going boy crazy over how hot Garrett is. Ma’am you are here to work on your new identity and your new life, did you not learn anything from before? Yes Ella is cautious and she’s paranoid (i do like that about her) but the entire book is her just be constantly faced with fresh betrayals and being like “ oh my gosh i’ve been betrayed once again” and I can’t help but feel bad for her while being like “saw this coming from a mile away” haha. Overall it’s an interesting book and I am interested in seeing where the sequel goes.