Teaser Tuesday -- Heist Society by Ally Carter

 Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Cover of Heist Society

 "I'm going to miss our little chats, Katarina.  You should know that it's out of respect for your mother's family that I have tried to do this in the most honorable way possible." 

~p. 149,  Heist Society by Ally Carter

This was a read for Tattooed Books' YALSA Challenge.  It was a lot of fun to read -- just what I needed right now.  Katarina Bishop wants to leave the only world she's ever known -- thievery and con games with her family -- to lead a normal life -- after one last con, getting herself into a high profile boarding school.  Once in, though, she learns that her father has been accused of a crime he didn't commit.  She finds herself assembling a team to save her father's life and re-steal some extremely valuable paintings.

I love all the names she and her friends have for the various cons -- Mary Poppins, Five O'Clock Shadow, Smokey the Bear, etc., and the one line comments about them.  The whole book reminded me of Oceans Eleven but with a much younger cast -- just as much fun and just as much not like my life.  :)