Ross was trained by her mom and aunt to be elite. To execute flawlessly. To be there perfect thief. She is a Quest after all. And the Quests are one of the world's most notorious crime families.

But when a heist goes bad, and her mom is kidnapped, Ross finds herself accepting the clandestine invitation she received to the Thieves Gambit, a competition involving a series of international heists. Because the only way to get the 1 Billion dollars for her mom's random is to win.

But dropping into the gambit she not only has to trust her lifetime of training, but she has to decide whether to trust her competitors and the game organizers, which is starkly against the "don't trust anyone whose name isn't Quest" mantra that her mom has drilled into her.

This isn't just a high stakes game to save her mom, this competition had the potential to reshape her whole life. 

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I am a BIG fan of heist books and this one did not disappoint. I was sucked into the story and was entertained the whole way through. 

I appreciated the push and pull of trusting your gut vs trusting your training that Ross experienced. Her mistakes and triumphs really served her character arc and I can't wait to see what lies ahead in book 2.

This is YA and while the characters seem more mature than teens, the content of this book is appropriate for YA audience. Little to no language and no sexual content. There is a lot of moral ambiguity around the nature of the thefts of course, but this book could have been much darker and more violent and I appreciate that it didn't take that turn.