With a name like Rosalyn Quest, you expect adventurous hijinks and the opening chapters do not disappoint. Rosalyn is intelligent, cunning, alert, agile, patient, cool under pressure and an ailurophile. But no pretty kitty sways her from completing a job. Neither does her perfectly put-together mother sway her from contemplating a future away from her sticky-fingered family.
The Quests are top-notch thieves and Rosalyn is constantly pushed to be better. We see that she has the chops to pull off a heist of valuable items AND send forged applications to colleges so she can escape her claustrophobic kinfolk. She’s loyal but there’s really no loyalty among thieves. Just ask her mother, who insists on cheating during family game night.
Rosalyn’s mother may love her but a few paragraphs make it clear that it’s a scary kind of love. Her orations to Rosalyn about how no one else can be trusted except family read a great deal like Mother Gothel’s manipulative, gaslighting speeches to Rapunzel. Mama Quest warns that other people will use Rosalyn, hurt her, snap her heart in half, will demand things from her because no one gives anything for free, etc. You can imagine how she treats any hint that Rosalyn yearns to leave for other pastures.
However, Rosalyn has entered the age where she’s tired of being around no one except family. She wants friends, real friends, presumably girlfriends to chat with and boys to kiss and cuddle. She wants to be with people her own age who care about ordinary things. In short, a life solely devoted to the con, the escape and the heist is wearing thin. Houdini may have been thrilled to wiggle out of handcuffs while submerged in water. But at least he was married at the time.
Rosalyn has just attracted the attention of a thief competition. She’s intrigued and so are we. So we’ve got action, humor, suspense, teenaged rebellion, parental control and a heist-gone-wrong scenario. All of this in one story that promises fierce competition against opponents who’ll probably pull every dirty trick in the book. Let the games begin.
The Quests are top-notch thieves and Rosalyn is constantly pushed to be better. We see that she has the chops to pull off a heist of valuable items AND send forged applications to colleges so she can escape her claustrophobic kinfolk. She’s loyal but there’s really no loyalty among thieves. Just ask her mother, who insists on cheating during family game night.
Rosalyn’s mother may love her but a few paragraphs make it clear that it’s a scary kind of love. Her orations to Rosalyn about how no one else can be trusted except family read a great deal like Mother Gothel’s manipulative, gaslighting speeches to Rapunzel. Mama Quest warns that other people will use Rosalyn, hurt her, snap her heart in half, will demand things from her because no one gives anything for free, etc. You can imagine how she treats any hint that Rosalyn yearns to leave for other pastures.
However, Rosalyn has entered the age where she’s tired of being around no one except family. She wants friends, real friends, presumably girlfriends to chat with and boys to kiss and cuddle. She wants to be with people her own age who care about ordinary things. In short, a life solely devoted to the con, the escape and the heist is wearing thin. Houdini may have been thrilled to wiggle out of handcuffs while submerged in water. But at least he was married at the time.
Rosalyn has just attracted the attention of a thief competition. She’s intrigued and so are we. So we’ve got action, humor, suspense, teenaged rebellion, parental control and a heist-gone-wrong scenario. All of this in one story that promises fierce competition against opponents who’ll probably pull every dirty trick in the book. Let the games begin.