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A review by arthuriana
Heist Society by Ally Carter
3.0
I'm going to be honest: I just picked up this book solely for the reason that I wanted to add a book for my reading challenge this year. I knew it was going to be light and would provide a fast read (which, basically, describes the whole young adult genre and also the reason why I dabble in the genre in the first place) and that was why I decided to read it. Simple as that.
In the end, I was right. It was light and provided a fast read, but I'm still on the fence whether or not it was a good read.
The characters were okay, though I felt incredulous that they're just in their teens. I know, I know, Frank Abagnale, Jr. started out when he was young too; but this is just way too unbelievable. At some moments, I felt as if the characters were too perfect. (Take, in this instance, Hale--nobody could possibly be what Hale was described in the novel at just sixteen--billionaire status be damned.) The whole reason of the conflict reads out as ridiculous. If I was the main character, I'd have just waited out the whole two weeks. By then, the bad guy would then predictably visit the main character's father and realise what a goddamned fool he's been all along.
So you could kind of imagine what I felt when the main character was whining about how her father is doomed.
And the plot . . . it was, to put it plainly, fast-paced--far too fast-paced in my opinion. It almost made it seem that they could have done this even without the threat to the main character's father hanging on the line. It certainly didn't look like what the characters were making it out to be when they all talked about how the Henley couldn't be robbed.
The writing was okay, though, despite the fact that the author uses ellipses like mad (the same way I use my italics, to tell the truth).
Still, this book was a light, fun read. It even made me laugh out loud in some moments. I don't regret reading it, and--who knows?--perhaps I might get my hands on the sequel.
In the end, I was right. It was light and provided a fast read, but I'm still on the fence whether or not it was a good read.
The characters were okay, though I felt incredulous that they're just in their teens. I know, I know, Frank Abagnale, Jr. started out when he was young too; but this is just way too unbelievable. At some moments, I felt as if the characters were too perfect. (Take, in this instance, Hale--nobody could possibly be what Hale was described in the novel at just sixteen--billionaire status be damned.) The whole reason of the conflict reads out as ridiculous. If I was the main character, I'd have just waited out the whole two weeks. By then, the bad guy would then predictably visit the main character's father and realise what a goddamned fool he's been all along.
So you could kind of imagine what I felt when the main character was whining about how her father is doomed.
And the plot . . . it was, to put it plainly, fast-paced--far too fast-paced in my opinion. It almost made it seem that they could have done this even without the threat to the main character's father hanging on the line. It certainly didn't look like what the characters were making it out to be when they all talked about how the Henley couldn't be robbed.
The writing was okay, though, despite the fact that the author uses ellipses like mad (the same way I use my italics, to tell the truth).
Still, this book was a light, fun read. It even made me laugh out loud in some moments. I don't regret reading it, and--who knows?--perhaps I might get my hands on the sequel.