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A review by madelinelindy
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.
While the book is beautifully worded with gorgeous imagery, the same care isn’t shown to the five main characters. They’re so rapidly moved between they blur together into one person. The author focuses so deeply on the grief associated with growing up and being the children of immigrants, the heist is so secondary you forget that it’s even the major selling point of the book.
Major portion of the book are repetitive and the entire heist subplot is more stealing from the principals office than mutltimillion dollar “project”. The characters themselves added little to the plot since it was mostly their inner struggles about growing up and not knowing who they were.
Overall, this was not a heist book or even that tense of a book since the heist were barely touched upon.
Major portion of the book are repetitive and the entire heist subplot is more stealing from the principals office than mutltimillion dollar “project”. The characters themselves added little to the plot since it was mostly their inner struggles about growing up and not knowing who they were.
Overall, this was not a heist book or even that tense of a book since the heist were barely touched upon.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Death of parent and Cancer