The Frame-Up
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A magically gifted con artist must gather her estranged mother’s old crew for a once-in-a-lifetime heist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds.
“Makes grand larceny more fun than ever.”—Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Book of Night
Dani Poissant is the daughter and former accomplice of the world’s most famous art thief. There was no job too big for Maria and her loyal crew. The secret to their success? A little thing called magic, kept rigorously secret from the non-magical world. They seemed unstoppable . . . until a teenage Dani turned her mother over to the FBI.
Ten years later, with Maria still in prison, Dani finds herself approached for a job that only Maria and her crew could pull off . . . if any of them were still speaking to her. But it’s the job of a lifetime and might just be the lure Dani needs to reconcile with her mother and be reunited with her mother’s old gang—including both the love of her life and her former best friend.
The problem is, it’s an impossible task—even with the magical talents of the people she once considered family backing her up. It’s a heist that needs a year to plan, and Dani has just over a week. Worse, the more Dani learns, the more she understands that there’s far more at stake in this job than she ever realized.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bond (Mr. and Mrs. Witch) sketches out a slow-paced art heist in this flawed romantasy. Magical master art forger Dani Poissant has been on the outs with the secret world of magical thieves in which she grew up since she turned in her famous art thief mother, Maria, to the FBI when she was 17. Now Maria's mysterious former partner, Archer, offers Dani the chance to reconcile with her mother and get back to her old life in her old home if Dani will steal a portrait of Archer from the soon to be auctioned Hackworth Collection kept in "the Fortress of Art," a place "tougher to get into than Fort Knox." Dani accepts, going undercover as a security guard and managing to win over her mother's old team. Along the way, however, she realizes there's much more to Archer, and his portrait, than meets the eye. What should be a snappy, tightly plotted narrative gets bogged down by an unconvincing love triangle between Dani and the barely sketched out characters of Brad Hackworth, the personalityless heir of the Hackworth Collection, and Elliot, a fellow magical criminal, as well as overwrought excerpts from an 1890s journal written by Dani's ancestor. Readers looking for excitement will have to find it elsewhere. Agent: Kate McKean, Howard Morhaim Literary.
Customer Reviews
Fun heist story
Overall, a decent heist novel. Dani Poissant had been part of an Art heist crew run by her mother. All of the members of the crew had some sort of magical powers. Dani’s power was the ability to paint forgeries that could not be detected. At seventeen, she helped the FBI capture her mother and she has been on her own for ten years. She is approached by the mysterious Archer, to commit one more heist with a promise to get her mother, and old life back. Archer ensures that she is put in charge of security for the collection that has the painting he wants stolen. Dani needs to get the old crew back together to pull off the heist, but they are still holding a grudge. The heist part of this book worked for me. What didn’t work was the love triangle between Dani and Elliot, the ex that abandoned her, and Brad the wealthy owner of the art collection. If you enjoy a fun heist novel, you will enjoy this, but if you are looking for a good romance, you may be disappointed. I received an arc of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.