Smash and Grab by Amy Christine Parker

Lexi is a spoiled rich girl who, in the fashion of The Bling Ring, enjoys risky stunts with her equally spoiled friends and brother. Who doesn't go base jumping off of a skyscraper in Downtown Los Angeles? Don't we all? When her father is arrested for illegal activities at a bank he worked at, Lexi will do anything to help his boss also receive justice. 

 Christian is a teenage bank robber - he has to or else the gang that rules his hood will kill him and his family. The gang declares that one of the biggest jobs they have ever done is about to go down - with Christian and his friends a part of it all. How fateful that the two of them meet when they both want to take down the bank...

For what it was, I really enjoyed this book. I have read reviews about people being upset that it was not realistic, or that it made it seem too easy to rob a bank. I don't know about you, but I don't read these types of stories as a "how-to" - well I don't even read how-to's. I am reading these stories for entertainment. And entertained I was. Amy Christine Parker knows how to weave a story together of 2 alternating viewpoints, keeping you engaged, and not getting lost in the story. I keep seeing "for fans of Heist Society" and I have those on my shelf, so I may be reading those next!

I received this e-book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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