Portrait of a Thief

The only reason this isn't a 1 star novel is because the cover art is just that beautiful.

There is a good story in this book, we just didn't get to see most of it because the author was too focused on introspection and minutia. She tried very hard to make the characters sympathetic but, in her efforts, made them unlikable.

It is pretty remarkable how she takes these thrilling, exciting, important themes and motifs and fumbles the bag, making them almost unbearably boring.

She made a story wherein these politically significant international art heists are only secondary to the melodrama of young adult angst. A choice I will never understand.

Highly highly disappointing.