Generally, I always think it takes at least 100 pages to explore a new dimension/world properly. Sky doesn’t talk to many locals when I think she (and the author) could’ve taken some time to explore this new world. I feel like Sky was so focused on her struggle to get back to earth that the author didn’t take enough time to focus on the fact that there is a whole new dimension where things are different. In this regard, there is a section of the novel that is set in Home, the dimension where the wyvern species is from. There is another one later in the novel, but that one is over and done with just as quickly, if not even more quickly. It took about 120 (out of 292) pages to get to the actual heist, and then it was over and dealt with in a couple of pages - I’d have loved for there to be a bigger focus of the story. Since the blurb was focused completely on planning the heist, I’d thought that that would be the sole focus of the novel, but I was wrong. It definitely felt reminiscent of heist movies (or, what I watch more of: GTA Heists from Achievement Hunter Let’s Plays). This was such a cool book! I was immediately drawn-in by the heist nature of this book.

Together with Ryan, her human friend Gabriella, and the wizard Maximus (who just somehow weasled his way into the heist), they plan and train carefully to be successful and reinstate Sky’s position in the community. She targets the same prize her mother did: a precious jewel that’s locked away in Ryan’s father’s well-protected heist. Now, Sky is determined to redo the heist that her mother failed at and succeed this time. But Sky’s mother recently failed at such a heist and disappeared - Sky’s family has been shunned ever since, going so far that her boyfriend Ryan even had to break up with her. In the wyvern community, you gain status through successful heists in which you amass more gold. Sky is a wyvern - a were-dragon of sorts but they forgot how to turn into dragons at some point after the species was exiled to Earth, and now they are ‘only’ fire-resistent and can breathe fire.

Fire & Heist by Sarah Beth Durst