itsthebutler 's review for:

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

3.0

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The book never felt like a true heist story, and while I appreciated the fact that each character started with a unique background and relationship with China and what the job meant to them, yet by the midway point everyone kinda started to blend together, and each character boiled down to family/parental pressure, china as this otherworldy place they longed for, and how much they wanted to hang out together. It got really repetitive by Act 3.