Jack Shannon's mom runs The Golden Age, one of the top casino and hotels on the LA Strip, and that's not something a person can do while keeping their hands clean. When she's arrested, Jack knows exactly who double crossed her. He just has to prove it. So he calls in help from his online friends, the members of an asexuals-only chat group.

You would think that a book that has "a heist" as the subtitle would focus more on the heist itself. Unfortunately, the heist part of this book is actually rather small, but fortunately, that part isn't all that strong so maybe the book turned out better for having that part be smaller.

Like so many others I was hyped to see an entire group of asexual characters. On the one hand, it's nice that the book doesn't make a big deal about the ace factor; it is just one aspect of the characters like hair color. On the other hand, besides a couple of lines nothing comes of the characters being ace and they might as well have made a private chat because they all supported some super obscure fanfic ship. 
Identifying as ace can mean such a variety of things, having a group of them is practically begging to explore how the characters experience things differently, especially because the book is set in Las Vegas, which isn't exclusively notorious for the sin of gambling. Instead we just get a mention that there's a difference between aromatic and asexual, and some background details to hint that asexuals aren't the same person (Gabe mentioning it took a long time for him to come to terms with his identity, Lucky being younger but knowing already, Georgia mentioning a girlfriend, and Remy being nonbinary).

Overall I found this book to be fairly enjoyable and very briskly paced. Unfortunately, when I look back on the book I have a hard time remembering the fun beneath all the missed opportunities.

Enrique has big summer plans: 1) get buff, 2) get cultured, 3) get over his crush on his friend, Salem, - who doesn’t even know Enrique is bi - by getting with (in the sexual sense) one of guys around him that he senses might be interested in him in that way.

I enjoyed Enrique’s chaotic energy, which is heightened since he is dealing with anxiety and depression on top of being a horny and lonely 17yo. I also enjoyed the supporting cast (minus a certain someone that you aren’t supposed to like in the end). I especially liked that this book plays with the older and wiser queer mentor by having those characters not have it all together.

I also really appreciate that being Public out (or publicly outed) isn’t a part of this book. You don’t need to publicly out to be queer and I hate that being outed is such a big thing in ya lgbtiaq+ and it is nice to see some different experiences represented.

To be truthful, there is only one thing I didn’t care for in this book and it happens late enough that it feels like I should be able to overlook it but is such a big thing that I really can’t.

I don’t like that Saleem had a crush on Enrique and that they got together. I’m all for queer joy but I loved that moment when it was a I love you but not in that way and would have loved to see Enrique getting over his crush (what he was trying to do the whole time) by finally being able to be his whole self with his friends. Saleem having felt the same for nearly the entire book made me feel like the whole book was basically pointless even though it wasn’t because Enrique grew so much as a person in the middle.