The Con Artists

2.5

This was a miss for me. I kept waiting for something to happen.
I don't mind subtlety and I love nuance but also I need substance for it to work and I missed the substance of this.

What did Frank (I struggled to remember his name because he was such a sad, forgettable character) gain? Not money, not friendship, maybe a fashionable bag, a black eye, maybe perspective and maybe some material for his stand up.

The best part of the book for me is the female side characters and for that Healy is getting the side eye from me. And yay you had two female characters briefly talk to each other, twice.

Frank wasn't sympathetic he was pitiable, like I wanted to heave a large sigh or a small slap at him and tell him ‘you know better, grow a spine and set some boundaries and there's a difference between enabling and helping.'