4.25* 
 I enjoyed being back in the Grisha world. Leigh Bardugo's writing has definitely become stronger with each of the books she has written which is set in the Grisha world. However, for some reason I had a difficult time making it through this book. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the heist story, the different characters we got to meet (their background was so interesting!), and the world building to add to the parts of the Grisha world that we already got to know and love. I think what did it in for me was not only reading this at the end of a school year teaching in a new position and district, but also that this story is told through five different points of view. While it was easy to tell which person's POV I was reading through (Leigh Bardugo does a pretty good job and making sure that each character's story and different personality shines through), I had a hard time shifting from one person to another. I felt like I would just start to get invested in that person's side of the story and how the plot was moving along when the chapter would end (or I would fall asleep at night - whichever came first) and then I would be putting the book down for a little while to accomplish some other things and wouldn't quite feel like I wanted to pick it up again because I knew it would be starting with a different person. I'm wondering if I would have felt this way if I had started the book when I was less stressed out, but what's done is done, "the deal is the deal" and this book left me giving it 4.25-4.5 stars. I look forward to moving onto the next book in this duology, but I think I might give it a little time before I move on since I finally feel accomplished after taking something like two solid weeks to read this book (when the other Grisha books only took me something like a couple days).