Review: High School Slice of LIfe, or Clever Caper Story?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
When the author is good, he's very good.  The characters are unique and believable.  The setting is very well established and easily visualized. The plot is clever. There are amusing incidents which are actually funny. The actual "caper" is well paced and will leave you turning the pages to see what happens next.However, balancing between a "slice of life"/"coming of age" story and a "heist" caper takes a bit of finesse. I feel that the story dragged in parts, even though I couldn't tell you what the author could have left out.  Upon reflection, I think it's simply, if you are reading the story for the caper, the rest of it, while necessary to establish the plot and characters seem overly long.I rather enjoyed the twist at denouement of the caper, and, while I usually object to a "set up" at the end of a book to establish a series, I didn't mind it here.