"When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her 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 her back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster's art collection has been stolen, and he wants it returned. 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 (very crooked) history— and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way.”"

The book synopsis is perfect, so I didn't write my own. I loved the characters and the plot (no spoilers!) It took a classic motive and made it new again. I also love the characters, they are realistic in the sense that…..well..…let me explain it better. How many books have you read where the main female role is crazy about some guy, and he’'s too dense to see it? Let me guess: more than you can count.

This one breaks that ridiculous mold. Most female authors take to heart that men are not as emotional as women. But, they take it too much to heart. Most (most being the key word) guys are not felling-less neanderthals. Men may not show emotion as much, but their prides can be bruised just as much as girls. For once we have a male character (Hale) who actually feels emotion, without going overboard, or underboard, as the case may be. For once, Kat, the female lead is quite clueless (or at least as much as the boys usually are) about his more than friendship feelings. It shows the truth of things. Half the time, girls are just as clueless as boys. Example: It involves an amusing story about me at summer camp. If you want to read it, go to the next page. Point and case, I loved both Heist Society and Uncommon Criminals.

My friend Mitchell had a little blip on Heist Society, I thought it might be fun to have a boys opinion on it:

“Well, Heist Society was okay, I thought it lacked some critical action that could have made it much better.”