Sarah's Reviews > The Art of Theft

I have been impatiently waiting for this book and was so excited to get the opportunity to review it. I first went back and reread the first three in the series. A lot goes on in these books and I wanted to make sure I didn’t forget anything. These books were just as good the second time as they were the first. And I think that the Art of Theft is the best so far in a really spectacular series. Here we have an old lover of Mrs. Watson’s that needs help retrieving letters from a home outside of Paris. So Charlotte, Mrs. Watson, Lord Ingram, Mr Marbleton and Livia plan to infiltrate this house during a ball. This book added a new character of Leighton Atwood, Lord Ingram’s cousin and a fellow operative for the crown. This book we see Charlotte in a more active role. She has dressed and played the part of a man before but we have never seen the group truly go into a dangerous situation before. I liked the more adventurous plot and I really liked Charlotte and Lord Ingram working together as a team. They had worked for the same goal before but never truly together. They work well together each deferring to the others expertises. From the cliffhanger at the end I expect them to work even more together in the next book. As for their personal relationship , after the intimacy of the last book. They have both stepped back and seem to be trying to figure out what they each want from the other. I love them together! As much as I like the tension between them I really want them to be together in a committed relationship. I love how he humanizes her and her love for him makes her more vulnerable. Hopefully in the next book they will finally get together for good! The writing was excellent, the mystery was interesting. The only problem is that I have to wait a year for the next book.