I really liked this heist novel about some college students getting asked to steal the Chinese Zodiac heads from the Western museums where they've been held since being stolen from China 150 years ago. It was billed as an Ocean's Eleven-type book, and that comparison was what got me interested. But what I ended liking about it were the different characters and their interactions, and the history of Chinese art and what it's like being a Chinese immigrant, and the morality of museums keeping art that has been stolen. The plot definitely started off stronger in the first half of the novel than in the second half, where it started to get a little slow, but it was still a fun book. I was definitely rooting for them and hoping they would earn the 50 million dollars they were going for.
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