Death Prefers Blondes - Caleb Roehrig

Title: Death Prefers Blondes
Author: Caleb Roehrig
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 2.5 Stars

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Teenage socialite Margo Manning leads a dangerous double life. By day, she dodges the paparazzi while soaking up California sunshine. By night, however, she dodges security cameras and armed guards, pulling off high-stakes cat burglaries with a team of flamboyant young men. In and out of disguise, she’s in all the headlines.

But then Margo’s personal life takes a sudden, dark turn, and a job to end all jobs lands her crew in deadly peril. Overnight, everything she’s ever counted on is put at risk. Backs against the wall, the resourceful thieves must draw on their special skills to survive. But can one rebel heiress and four kickboxing drag queens withstand the slings and arrows of truly outrageous fortune? Or will a mounting sea of troubles end them — for good? 

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When I first heard about Death Prefers Blondes, I was intrigued by the premise of the book.  However, once I started reading, I found what I think is a steaming hot mess of a book. 

There is so much going on that there doesn't really seem, to me anyway, to be a straight line of a plot.  Everything skips around so much between characters that it's hard to know what's happening.   That could have been cleared up by the author having different chapters from a different characters POV, instead of jumping from one POV to another in each paragraph.  It was so hard to keep track of stuff because of the way the POV shifted so much.

What the author did get right was that he included a lot of diverse characters.  However, even in the inclusion of gay characters, there was a flatness and sameness in these characters that I've seen in other books.  The little brother just wanting attention, the rich socialite who never gets in trouble for her actions, etc.  This book had so much potential to be great and to have great characters - but it fell into stock characters with little development and growth throughout the story.

Overall, this story just fell flat for me - I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't get into it as much as I would have liked.

Have you read this book?  If so, what did you think of it.