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Her whole life, 17-year-old Ross (short for Rosalyn) Quest has only known thievery. It’s the family business. She’s been trained in all kinds of ways to pull off heists with her mom. She’s also had one phrase drummed into her head: trust no one.
While she has traveled the world and owns some nice things, life as a thief has been lonely. Ross pretty much has her mom and aunt; friends … well, that’s laughable.
She’s ready to get out in the world and live like normal people: make some friends, go to college. When Ross has an opportunity to do a weeklong gymnastics program (she uses gymnastics to her thieving advantage), she decides to sneak off to do it. Her mom will never approve, but she has a plan to make it happen. Just as she’s in the middle of her escape, her mom gets kidnapped, and the ransom is outrageously high.
Another opportunity that mysteriously appeared in her personal (and very secret) email box just days before comes back into her mind: the Thieves’ Gambit. She knows little about it except that it’s an international competition for young thieves that grants the winner any wish. And it’s dangerous. She has no choice: this is the only way to free her mom.
The competition pits some of the best thieves against each other for a series of heists. Ross can do that. But she’s dismayed to learn upon first meeting the others that one is her childhood nemesis, and another is a suave, handsome guy who could easily become a love interest — if she had room in her life for that kind of thing.
The whole competition messes with her mind more than a few times and tests her dedication to the family creed of trusting no one. Stuff gets murky and sometimes confusing. The mysterious group in charge of the event is extremely powerful and knows how to get in her and everyone’s heads. There are twists and turns for Ross and plenty for the reader.
Thieves’ Gambit is a really exciting book with nonstop action that pretty much goes up to the very last page. I did not see things coming. It’s super-entertaining. And now to wait for a second book.
Rated: Moderate. Profanity includes a few instances of moderate profanity, about 65 uses of mild language, and 25 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes kissing. Violence includes a lot of action with people being shot, injured in other ways, threatened, and almost dying.
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