I found both of the titles listed via our Library's ebook collection. I'd read books by "Heist Society" author Ally Carter before. Her Gallagher Girls series featuring a spy school run for teenage girls are fun reads. "Heist Society" is also a fun book, but with a bit of history tossed in as well. With a plot similar to the "Oceans" movie series, the book features very successful thieves. Kat has tried to leave that world by enrolling in a boarding school. She is pulled back in when her father is framed for an art theft. Out to prove her father's innocence and return the art to the very dangerous man who 'owned' the art, she uncovers historical information about those pieces of missing art. Carter tosses in a bit of history regarding how the Nazis during WWII stole art and the attempts ever since to return those pieces to their rightful owners. "Heist Society" is an easy read, but Carter always does a nice job with her characters and her plots. Thumbs up!
"The Hunchback Assignments" by Arthur Slade looked quite intriguing and it proved to be a very interesting read. This is not what I'd consider a steampunk novel, although it has several of that genre's qualities. Modo is rescued from a traveling circus by the mysterious Mr. Socrates and raised to work for his organization as an operative. At fourteen Modo is left on the streets of London to survive on his own, a test of sorts, and uncovers a plot to destroy Britannia by a competing organization. Enter a fellow operative named Octavia, a variety of nefarious characters, crazy experiments and a lot of daring do. Darker in tone and subject matter, Slade offers up an adventurous tale filled with science gone mad, hidden agendas and moral lessons.
Both books have sequels out and available. If our Library's ebook collection had them, I'd download and read the next installments.
Two winners for today....enjoy!
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