wangl5 's review for:

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
2.0

I really wanted to like this but the writing was ridiculously corny and repetitive. It was nice having the Chinese immigrant experience represented in a book but the characters literally can't do anything without an inner dialogue about the diaspora. The heist almost felt like an afterthought, which was kind of a relief because who hires five 20-somethings to pull an art heist?