Week 33 Review: Medici Heist

From Goodreads:

Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue, opulence, secrets, and murder. The Medici family rules the city from their seat of wealth, but the people of Florence remember the few decades they spent as a Republic, free from the Medicis and their puppet Pope, Leo X.

Sharp-witted seventeen-year-old con-woman Rosa Cellini has plans for the Pope and the Medicis - and, more specifically, the mountain of indulgence money they've been extorting from the people of Tuscany. To pull off the Renaissance's greatest robbery, she'll recruit a team of capable Sarra the tinkerer, Khalid the fighter, and Giacomo, the irrepressible master of disguise. To top it all off, and to smooth their entrance into the fortress-like Palazzo Medici, Rosa even enlists the reluctant help of famed artist and local misanthrope, Michelangelo.

Old secrets resurface and tensions in the gang flare as the authorities draw closer and the Medicis' noose pulls tighter around Tuscany itself. What began as a robbery becomes a bid to save Florence from certain destruction - if Rosa and company don't destroy each other first.

Get ready for an absolute swashbuckling riot, beginning with a 'mud' pie to the Pope's face, and ending with a climatic heist that would give Danny Ocean a run for his money. Bursting with snark, innuendo and action, Medici Heist is your next un-put-downable obsession.

My Review:
I had such a fantastic time reading this book! The idea of robbing the Pope, who was a part of a family that had basically ruled Florence, but had been kicked out, until he got this power, yeah, it was so thrilling to read! That a power-hunger, awful person got robbed, it was so rewarding! 

Watching Rosa collect this band of misfits to pull of this heist, while we also got most of their perspectives was really wonderful. They all had their reasons for participating in the heist, mainly the money, but to take the Medicis down a peg was so gratifying! 

I will say that this was an audiobook, so I did have a bit of trouble keeping everybody straight, particularly Sarra and Rosa, simply because I'd miss their name being said, and then have to figure out who it was, which is more of a me problem then a book problem, but it took a minute to sort everybody out.

Of course this is a heist story, and of course it's very clever, and things go wrong, but they might be planned to go wrong in that way, in that marvellous way that heist stories with a clever orchestrator happen. It was so much fun to watch everything unfold, and then be explained after thwarting the bad guys! 

Loved reading this book and I'd love to read more by Caitlin Schneiderhan! 

Author: Caitlin Schneiderhan
Read: August 13th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a Historical Fiction 2024 Book, SAC 2024 Book and a Sophomore Challenge Book! 
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: August 6th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars