Review: Heart of the Steal

Heart of the Steal by Avon Gale
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I adore Roan Parrish's first book in the 'In the Middle' series, it is so full of angst and cinnamon bun goodness, so I was hoping for more of that in this book. Failing that, perhaps some kind of cat and mouse heist courtship between the main characters, but no.

The start of the book sets-up a good framework for the courtship-through-heist via art theft, but sadly doesn't really follow through on that line. The theft acts as more of a example of how differently the two characters view the world.
And maybe that's the part that just didn't click with me, they do have to do a lot of work to figure out how to fit together, but I never got the dire feeling that it wasn't going to work out in the end. Heart of the Steal just doesn't have the same heart-ripping depth as Parrish's In The Middle. Now that's not to say that it wasn't a fun read, it was a fast, cute story with quite a bit of sexytimes thrown in with a goodly dash of pining, but I don't think I will be finding myself thinking about the characters any further than wondering if Amory cleans the cat's litter box or pays someone to do that.

I'm giving it three starts as it was an enjoyable read, but in the same way that watching House Hunters International is, you know at the end they are going to end up some place nice that you'll never be able to afford but it was still nice to see that rich people have bad taste in bathrooms too.

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