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victoriathuyvi 's review for:
Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
I wanted to love this, but at times, it felt like watching a pretty cliché movie in writing. The characters felt pretty flat and everything, from the heists to the romances felt convenient. I couldn't suspend my disbelief. The whole premise was just too improbable. I did like the themes intersecting of art, colonialism, diaspora, and repatriation. Also, I'd love to see a band of geniuses who are not as beautiful as art and can charm their way through everything. Give me so average looking protagonists!! And if I hear Galveston mentioned one more time or the sentence structure "It went like this," I will slap someone with a book.