Review: Thieves' Gambit

Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rosalyn 'Ross' Quest has been brought up as a master thief by her mother Rhiannon and the Quest family. However, she is beginning to find her life stifling and has planned to leave to take up a gymnastics course. She and her mother are on a heist and Ross is about to desert her family when it all goes wrong, her mother gets captured (and recognised). The captors demand a ransom of $1 billion and the only way Ross can see of getting that kind of money is by entering the Thieves Gambit, where the winner has one wish granted, no matter how big.

The Thieves Gambit is an annual competition, invitational-only, where a group of hand-selected thieves compete in a no-holds-barred competition to steal priceless artifacts, art, etc. Imagine Ross' horror when one of the first competitors she runs into is her former BFF turned nemesis Noelia, who wastes no time in forming an alliance with one of the other competitors, guess its true what her mother says, you can't trust anyone other than a Quest.

There's subterfuge, violence, double-crosses, romance, and high stakes car chases.

Loved it. Others have compared it to The Inheritance Games and/or Oceans Eleven and it does have those vibes. I felt some of the 'twists' were a bit obvious, although I suspected a Bodyguard-style plot. In the subsequent books I would like Nicholi (Noelia's younger brother to play more of a role, dare I say love interest?

Anyway, a fun read with lost to keep the reader interested.

I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

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