Ally Carter
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| Original Title: | Heist Society |
| ISBN: | 1423116399 (ISBN13: 9781423116394) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Heist Society #1 |
| Characters: | Gabrielle, Simon, Katarina Bishop, W.W. Hale the Fifth, Arturo Taccone |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) Las Vegas, Nevada(United States) Sabina Valley(Italy) …more Naples(Italy) Vienna(Austria) Warsaw(Poland) Paris(France) Rome(Italy) London, England Nevada(United States) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2012), The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2010) |
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When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own—scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected.Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat’s dad needs her help.
For Kat, there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's history--and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way.
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| Title | : | Heist Society (Heist Society #1) |
| Author | : | Ally Carter |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 287 pages |
| Published | : | February 9th 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Mystery. Contemporary. Romance. Fiction. Adventure. Teen |
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pretend and it will be true. heist society wasn't bad, by all means. in fact, it was actually better than i expected. this is more of a middle-grade type of book, and aside from the mystery tag, i wouldn't have picked it up. but alas, i did, so here we go.katarina bishop is fifteen years old. fifteen. it certainly didn't seem like it. like just a glance at a cover ( and that model is hot damn [ yes i'm not straight hoemygod when did you find out ] ), i would think she's about twenty? yearsThis was a meh read. When it got to a certain point, I kept glancing at the percentage at the bottom of my kindle screen to see if I was almost done.It's not a bad book and the idea was interesting, but I didn't really feel it. First off, it was rather vague. I couldn't really connect to any of the characters because I hardly got to know them. Also there were times where this book confusingly jumped between different POV's and lost me in the process. It was hardly a change of paragraph before we
Definitely 5 stars! Put it this way, I got this on audiobook from the library, finished it today in the car on the way to work, and stopped at the book store on the way home from work to buy a copy to keep. What a great premise! A bunch of preteens pulling off an Ocean's 11 worthy heist all in the name of saving family. Katerina Bishop (such a fantastic name) is the daughter of Bobby Bishop - one of the world's greatest thief's - and she is well on her way to being the same. She pulled her first
My first thoughts: Its like all the stealing movies!My second thought: Oh, wait, it IS the stealing movies. Can anyone say Oceans Eleven (Twelve and Thirteen, too)? What about The Italian Job? Or even Fast and Furious 5!?! The whole we-need-to-put-together-a-group-of-remarkable-people-so-they-can-steal-stuff is a very overdone principle and hard to make fresh. It is, though, totally awesome to read/watch. I NEVER get tired of the awesomeness behind a well-planned heist. I was really torn what
Actual Rating: 3.5 StarsI didn't take off with this book at first because the story was progressing too fast without proper introduction of the plot, setting, and characters.But as the story went on, I got used to the author's fast transition style and, honestly, had a fun reading experience.Katarina Bishop, or simply Kat for short, is the protagonist of the story. As most teenagers, she was having an identity confusion, and in her case, her role between a normal teenage girl and a
I spent the better half of today tucked between the covers in my bed reading this gem. It was such a fun experience as always with Ally's books. I love this crew and the theme is A+, of course! Kat just took a spot among some of my favorite YA heroines. There are a few things that bothered me a bit: a. as much as short skirts =/= anything bad and YAY for girls wearing them if they want to and not wearing them if they don't want to, but it bothered me that Gabrielle is 16 and when (view spoiler)
3.5 Stars First Marie Lu with Legend and now Ally Carter... Let me ask you one thing, what kind of sixteen year old kids were you back then? My big and only problem with this book is how a couple of sixteen year old kids manage to do extraordinary things despite not being this a fantasy book? Or was it? Why so goddamn young?Heist Society was good, very good. The kind of book you can read on a sunny afternoon. It was funny, smart, light and so delightfully written. Kind of Ocean's Eleven for YA,
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