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annajyoder 's review for:
Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
I loved the idea of this book. It has a stellar premise. However, most of the characters felt like a writing workshop prompt that was stretched into a novel. It was like each character had a mission statement and the author kept repeating it over and over and over again. I listened to the audiobook and wanted to pull my hair out after hours of this repetition. I could get over the unbelievability of the heists and lack of key details, but it was the repetition I couldn't get over. Also, listening to the audiobook convinced me that there was not a full sentence in this novel. So many fragmented sentences and all of them were, "and yet."