The Holver Alley Crew by Marshall Ryan Maresca, 352 pages.
The Rynax brothers were determined to give up their life of thievery to instead run an honest gadget shop. Then their home, their as yet unopened shop, and the whole of Holver Alley burn down in a fire overnight. And the more they look into it the more it looks like it wasn't an accident. So they gather a crew who all lost everything in the fire and plan a few heists, even as they are reminded of why they wanted out in the first place. Verci Rynax has a baby, and Asti Rynax is clinging to the scraps of his sanity after having a very traumatic time working in Druth Intelligence.
This book had all of the components of a fun fantasy heist, but it never felt like they quite got enough momentum behind them to get off of the ground. The characters were fine, and the setting was a pretty standard city with a few fantasy elements at the periphery, but I very nearly stopped halfway through after the first heist was over because the story structure made it feel like the book should be over. A fine novel, but I don't know that I will read the sequels.
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