The premise is intriguing. I mean, who would not be interested by the idea of teenage spies causing chaos in the art world. Theirs is a life full of adventure, daring and criminal activity. However, my biggest complaint with this book would be the narration method. Imagine the writer as a camerawoman. She zooms in on one shot and then zooms out. Some of the times, the story is told in a personal manner, without the presence of a narrator (the good times) and then the camera zooms out and there is the presence of a particularly condescending narrator whose officious and all knowing tone bugged the hell out of me. Most of the times it felt like I was being told how awesome Kat is or how extraordinary her thieving skills are and not actually being showed them. The book lacked a smoothness that was compounded by the unnecessary “zooming out” (I don’t know the literary term for it, someone educate me) method of narration. The characters were interesting and there was potential for the story to be more than it was. However, the writing was a major turn off and I doubt I’m going to be checking out the next book in the series.
