Heists are my favorite and I really enjoyed To Steal from Thieves. It’s one of the last books I read in 2025 and been on my TBR since release. So what a productive end to 2025! Keep reading this book review of To Steal from Thieves for my full thoughts.
Summary
Charming conman Kane Durante works alone—or on occasion with his best friend, Fletcher. But when his boss, the infamous Kingpin of London’s magical dark market, gives him the impossible task of stealing a priceless artifact from the Great Exhibition, he knows it’s a job he can’t pull off alone. Enter Zaria Mendoza, daughter of one of London’s greatest alchemologists. Ever since her father’s death, Zaria’s been struggling to keep her underground business afloat, and impatient clients are becoming violent. When the infuriatingly handsome Kane offers her the promise of enough money to get out of debt and leave London entirely, she knows she can’t walk away from this dangerous partnership.
But robbing one of the most public, heavily-guarded buildings in London isn’t going to be easy, especially when love and betrayal threaten to ruin everything they’ve worked so hard for.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
In To Steal from Thieves, there’s this captivating mix of historical fiction and fantasy. I love alchemy and this magic of sacrifice is one that I really enjoyed. While I wish we sunk into it a bit more, I loved the pacing and the energy of the heists. Both Zaria and Kane explore these issues of debt. If we feel our future is not owned by us, that we are constantly trying to balance the scales, what can we do? It asks us constantly if we will become the very thing we seem to abhor. If we look in the mirror will we like what we see? With animosity, banter, and double crossing, To Steal from Thieves asks us if we will become what we were shaped to be.
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What happens when our role models, our family, comes with love made up of conditions? Who will we become to serve someone else’s image? To Steal from Thieves has an explosive ending. I cannot wait for book two. While To Steal from Thieves was more heist and less magic than I thought, I have been loving the historical fantasy recently. If you love heists and a historical fiction setting, this is a must read. Now I have to do some research! Find To Steal from Thieves on Goodreads, Storygraph, Amazon, Bookshop. org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.