I like Uncommon Criminals. 
 ***** 
 I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me. 
 SHADY. 
 I'm hovering on a 3.5 rating. The development of Kat's character is a 4, but the overall execution of the story is a 3. I really liked Heist Society, but Uncommon Criminals fell a little short on my expectations for the sequel. 
 I loved how Kat managed the job quickly and efficiently, unfortunately she got reckless - and so, the plot thickens. The major plus for me in Uncommon Criminals is how Carter portrayed Kat as the heist-drunk, risk-taking, and remote-feeling girl who does not know that's she's all of those things until Gabs and Hale pointed them out to her. The part where Kat alienates herself from her family while doing solo heists was wonderfully written. I understood where she's coming from, even though i don't agree on how she deals with it. 
 Hale's character became stronger, more solid but still not enough. I still saw him as a sidekick, not as the male lead character. He's still charismatic and funny. I just wish he's more assertive to Kat's evasiveness. 
 With the constant twists and turns, I sometimes find myself lost - meaning i could not sensibly follow the story once they started pulling the biggest job of their lives. Carter's writing is addictive, but i encountered a lot of holes before seeing the big picture, the explanation on how the plan worked out. Did i mention that Kat and Hale's relationship is still as vague as from book 1? Less vague, maybe. But still vague. I don't want to assume anything, and given this story setting, more romantic scenes couldn't hurt now, would it? ;-) 
 Uncommon Criminals is a good read, but compared to Heist Society, it lacked the glue that made the first book solid and substantial. 
 Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.