So I FINALLY read this duology and hey guess what: It's great!!! Honestly it is an ideal YA historical urban fantasy with found family and inexplicably young yet hardened by the world thieves. The first book is a perfect getting the gang together of misfits with secret pasts and desires all working together on a big heist that isn't entirely what they or the reader thinks it's going to be, and it ends on a double-cross and then another double-cross and oh no cliffhanger!!!
Kaz is a perfect ringleader, with a fairly ridiculous backstory that fits this sort of story precisely because of how ridiculous it is, and then the other five are all great, with enough unexpected elements to the dynamics that it keeps the standard drama interesting. So basically, if you want to read about teenage thieves in a magical, dark Amsterdam set vaguely during the Dutch Golden Age, do not wait.
Grade: A
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