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Apr. 22nd, 2016 09:29 pmI think it was ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
saramily who recommended the Heist Society books to me -- Heist Society, Uncommon Criminals, and Perfect Scoundrels -- as fluffy caper vacation reads, and she was 100% correct, these are exactly the kinds of books I want to read on long plane rides when I haven't slept in twenty hours.
Kat, Our Heroine, is a weary, jaded former criminal who is tired of the life and is trying to go straight! But her past just won't let her go!
...because Kat is sixteen, 'trying to go straight' means 'enrolling in fancy boarding school.' Don't worry, it doesn't last. JUST WHEN SHE THINKS SHE'S OUT, THEY PULL HER BACK IN.
The series overall is basically like Ocean's Eleven starring a cast of criminal sixteen-year-olds. All the criminal sixteen-year-olds are independent jet-setting master thieves who hop cities on a moment's notice and have each pulled off approximately two dozen astoundingly successful crime jobs on their own. ALL OF THEM. 'But if they're only sixteen, when have they had time to learn how to --' Shhh, friends. SHHHH. These are not questions that need asking.
Every so often an adult appears briefly, to sternly tells the sixteen-year-olds that the criminal job is too big for them! their criminal parents/grandparents couldn't pull it off and NEITHER CAN THEY! time to try something low-key like conning the KGB!!! and then takes off again to allow the criminal sixteen-year-olds to return to their glamorous criminal lifestyle. Consistent adult supervision is for losers!
Besides Kat, characters include:
Hale, The Love Interest, a poor little rich boy who stumbled on Kat robbing his house once and then ran away from his unloving family to become a jet-setting international criminal
Simon, The Smart One, whose criminal skill is hacking things
Angus and Hamish, The Scottish Twins, whose criminal skill is blowing things up
Gabrielle, The Cool Cousin, whose criminal skill is being extremely hot
...I mean, Leverage it's not. (Not even when Kat decides to become an Ethical Criminal and, like, return art to Holocaust victims etc. who mostly never actually appear onscreen. I actually can't remember if anybody non-white appears onscreen either .... at all, ever. But I could be wrong on this, I'm not even sure if anybody's ethnicity is described at all except for Angus and Hamish, who are Definitely Very Scottish.) Anyway, all that said, it is fantastic beach reading.
saramily who recommended the Heist Society books to me -- Heist Society, Uncommon Criminals, and Perfect Scoundrels -- as fluffy caper vacation reads, and she was 100% correct, these are exactly the kinds of books I want to read on long plane rides when I haven't slept in twenty hours. Kat, Our Heroine, is a weary, jaded former criminal who is tired of the life and is trying to go straight! But her past just won't let her go!
...because Kat is sixteen, 'trying to go straight' means 'enrolling in fancy boarding school.' Don't worry, it doesn't last. JUST WHEN SHE THINKS SHE'S OUT, THEY PULL HER BACK IN.
The series overall is basically like Ocean's Eleven starring a cast of criminal sixteen-year-olds. All the criminal sixteen-year-olds are independent jet-setting master thieves who hop cities on a moment's notice and have each pulled off approximately two dozen astoundingly successful crime jobs on their own. ALL OF THEM. 'But if they're only sixteen, when have they had time to learn how to --' Shhh, friends. SHHHH. These are not questions that need asking.
Every so often an adult appears briefly, to sternly tells the sixteen-year-olds that the criminal job is too big for them! their criminal parents/grandparents couldn't pull it off and NEITHER CAN THEY! time to try something low-key like conning the KGB!!! and then takes off again to allow the criminal sixteen-year-olds to return to their glamorous criminal lifestyle. Consistent adult supervision is for losers!
Besides Kat, characters include:
Hale, The Love Interest, a poor little rich boy who stumbled on Kat robbing his house once and then ran away from his unloving family to become a jet-setting international criminal
Simon, The Smart One, whose criminal skill is hacking things
Angus and Hamish, The Scottish Twins, whose criminal skill is blowing things up
Gabrielle, The Cool Cousin, whose criminal skill is being extremely hot
...I mean, Leverage it's not. (Not even when Kat decides to become an Ethical Criminal and, like, return art to Holocaust victims etc. who mostly never actually appear onscreen. I actually can't remember if anybody non-white appears onscreen either .... at all, ever. But I could be wrong on this, I'm not even sure if anybody's ethnicity is described at all except for Angus and Hamish, who are Definitely Very Scottish.) Anyway, all that said, it is fantastic beach reading.
