As you may be able to guess from the title, this story involves an epic plan to rob the Philadelphia location of the United States Mint. The story follows four teenagers who attend a prestigious, private high school. When it's discovered that the school's headmaster embezzled away the school's endowment, it seems the historic high school will have to close its doors forever at the end of the semester. Not wanting this to happen, our main characters join forces to hack into the mint and make enough money to repay the headmaster's debts and ensure the school will live on.
Coin Heist is told in an alternating, first person point-of-view, with each of the four teens getting an opportunity to tell his or her part of the story. I always love having more than one point-of-view in a book, and I thought it worked really well here. In fact, it propelled me to keep reading at points in the story where I otherwise might have taken a reading break between chapters – that was a great choice by Ludwig to keep a consistent ordering of the storytellers (except for one part, which was jumbled for some odd reason).
Overall, I really enjoyed Coin Heist. It was very well-written, and the characters were all very likable. I connected easily with the characters, and I thought it was interesting that even though they were plotting a huge, criminal act I was still rooting for them to pull it off without getting caught! My only critiques of the story is that for the majority of the book I was waiting for something to happen. It wasn't until the latter quarter of the book that all of the major action took place. I did enjoy the ending, but it left me wanting more. Coin Heist is a stand-alone novel, but I would certainly be open to learning more about what happened to our crew next.
I rated Coin Heist a 4 out of 5 stars on Goodreads, and highly recommend this book if you like movies such as Ocean's Eleven or National Treasure. It's definitely a fun book, and I finished it rather quickly. You can purchase Coin Heist on Amazon HERE, and be sure to let me know what you thought of Coin Heist in the comments if you'd read it!
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