Now, this doesn’t mean they are successful necessarily, the Titanic is a huge ship with so many moving pieces, not to mention security, there’s just no way to account for all of them, and the current owners of the Rubaiyat aren’t going to just let them have it. They all had their reasons for carrying out this heist and I wanted them to succeed and get what they want/need from it. Original, absorbing, exceptional, and a thoroughly entertaining read from beginning to end…that is very highly recommended.

It feels so rushed that it seemed like an excuse to cover up the fact that Josefa recruited the only three other girls she already knew. Idk I'm not in the business of feeling bad for rich people who think a comfortably wealthy life is boring. Everything that should have been interesting about this novel—getting the gang together, the Titanic setting, carrying out the heist, the romance—was glossed over in favor of a good 100 pages of dithering in between each major plot point. Hinnah from Karachi is the youngest of the group, and she’s eager to leave a thankless job at the circus and put her contortionist abilities to better use aboard the Titanic by sneaking through circulation vents and into locked cabins. And this is of course all dependent on them making it on board one of the only 20 lifeboats that were on the ship, which even at full capacity, only had enough room for 53% of those on the Titanic that night.While there are a seemingly endless number of resources concerning the SMS Titanic, and there is most definitely a small +/- concerning any percentages used, the vast majority of my information came from www. The second time I saw this was in The Ones We Burn when the white witch girl was convinced the Black princess was super privileged because she was royalty. We know that of the 425 women on board, passengers and crew, roughly 316 of them survived, that’s 74%. Heart-pounding tension and pure adrenaline-fueled fun, along with an urgent countdown in the chapter headings, keep this heist novel on its toes, as accidental setbacks and unexpected faces in the second half force the plan to change, sometimes literally, in midair.

Paranormal fans should enjoy this strange brew of revelations and romance, saints and sinners, remembering the past and attempting to save the future.Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper and Girl in the Blue Coat, this high-seas heist from the author of The Henna Wars is an immersive story that makes readers forget one important detail--the ship sinks.

Like I don't need Hinnah to be a champion of modest fashion, but I don't get what argument was supposed to be here. Even as they grapple with motives, mistakes, and secrets within their own crew, the four also grapple with obstacles from the outside world: sexism, racism, parental abuse, parental loss, and being underestimated and taken advantage of for those reasons and many others. And so his unique career journey would continue to unfold, encountering a seemingly endless succession of superlatives, larger-than-life characters and astonishing events.

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I have to say I loved Josefa’s character, she was methodical and intense and really knew how to lead a group. Josefa is a consummate swindler with a feisty personality and a dogged approach to everything she does. I almost threw my book across the room after reading that passage because it's so unbelievably stupid that Violet would believe that a Black girl in that time period would be privileged because she had finances and a good family. Josefa is a rich white girl who ran away from the comfort of her wealth because she felt suffocated and bored, and started stealing because it made her feel free.