Book: Heist in Paradise by Elliot Ray
Reviewed by Michelles_Cosy_Booknook
Rating: 5/5
4.25 ⭐'s 2 🌶️'s
Wow! This book! It was non-stop from the first page!
Heist in Paradise by Elliot Ray focuses on a group of highly trained and skilled thieves, who are more like family, and who have been sent to steal a painting worth $100m from a billionaires remote island home. They find more than the painting when they come across Zola, a smart-mouthed, sassy cheerleader with her own, very personal reason for breaking in.
With immediate tension and mistrust between the two parties, they find themselves having to work together when unexpected revelations throw them onto the same path.
What follows is a banter filled, twisty journey of surprising and disturbing secrets.
The writing style and pace were equally matched with the way they left you eager for the next chapter and what would be revealed next. The tension was on point when it needed to be, and when trusted bonds are tested, you felt the emotional impact.
The character growth was limited for the most part, but with this book being the first in a series, I think this will be seen more in future books. Zola's character developed and I struggled to get on board with some of it. In particular, the sudden moving away from the values that seem so entrenched in the beginning.
This book had me laughing aloud with the top-tier banter and dialogue that perfectly suited each individual character and stayed consistent throughout.
This book is sprinkled with and as much as it was well-written and exciting, I'm not absolutely sure it was needed or added to the plot. Perhaps leaving it until book two would have been better as there is a tension building between Zola, Jax and Maboc.
This was a great read and I had it finished in a couple days. I am excited about the direction this series goes in, as it leaves off on a bit of a cliffhanger but more so with the promise of more secrets being revealed and a new group dynamic, with the addition of Zola to their midst.