She wants to restore her family’s honor and discover why her mom went missing. Though aware of her incompetence as a young wyvern, Sky’s is fired up by her motivations. Wildly overcome by her emotions from her first heartbreak and from losing a mother, Sky decided that it’s time to lead her first heist. Sky’s family is recently disgraced by her mother who went missing after a botched heist. Humans are naturally intrigued by them and they have a quasi-celebrity status with their private lives occasionally leaked in tabloids. They have their own version of “honor among thieves” code in that they may steal from each other as long as they don’t get caught. Their kind have a natural tendency to hoard gold. They openly live among humans but they have their own set of rules and inner social hierarchy. The not-so-secret society of wyverns are filthy rich were-dragon families who can once shape-shift into real dragons. I probably cannot stand being friends with her in real life but she fascinated me just as I am sometimes weirdly fascinated with the Kardashians. I like that she acknowledged that she is a self-absorbed privileged rich girl. Her personality matches with everything I imagined a teenager dragon’s personality would be: confident to the point of recklessness. Even when moping from having dumped by her boyfriend, Sky Hawkins’ wry narration is entertaining. What drew me in is the snarky voice of the protagonist. And that’s about it with “Fire and Heist”. At the most, I would expect to be kept amused by fire-breathing thieves. What should I have in mind with something like that? Surely, I wouldn’t expect it to be a lofty promise of a catharsis. The author’s pitch for the book is “ Ocean’s Eleven with were-dragons”.
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