Phantom Thief

Good-plus story geared toward a younger crowd (Simon is 15) and introducing a young genius thief as protagonist. It's a debut novel and in some ways that's a drawback, but in some places there are hilarious one-liberal d facets of real brilliance. Simon starts as an attitudinal kid and yet somehowI ended up liking him almost right away. I did guess the big surprise at the end but it's what I was hoping was going to happen all along.

There's a lot of action and a lot of stuff going on. At times it could be overwhelming and some key actions took place off camera so sometimes it was a little difficult to follow. Punctuation was all over the place, but I understand a second edition is in the works to fix that.

I'm definitely interested in Simon and will be reading more in the series!