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A meth dealer. A prostitute. A serial killer.
Anywhere else, they’d be vermin. At the Mandel Academy, they’re called prodigies. The most exclusive school in New York City has been training young criminals for over a century. Only the most ruthless students are allowed to graduate. The rest disappear.
Flick, a teenage pickpocket, has risen to the top of his class. But then Mandel recruits a fierce new competitor who also happens to be Flick’s old flame. They’ve been told only one of them will make it out of the Mandel Academy. Will they find a way to save each other—or will the school destroy them both?
- Sales Rank: #174360 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-21
- Released on: 2013-02-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Intense and An Excellent Read
By James Agee
First of all let me start off by saying that this book far exceeded my expectations! I was not expecting it to be so good and have me coming back for more. I literally could not stop thinking about this book when I stopped reading it. It is a very intense book and I would not recommend it if you are super squeamish because there are some pretty graphic scenes. The language used is intense, but when it comes to using the "f" word, the author simply puts something like "f---" instead of spelling it out, though it is quite frequently used like that.
The story is brilliant and you will feel like you know these characters personally. I rarely read a book that I simply cannot quit talking and thinking about, but this is one of them. It's action packed, every chapter is good and has a purpose, and it is a very satisfying read.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Great Story, Wish it was Marketed Differently
By Maggie
3.5 stars
I started out really liking this book but the more I read the less I liked it. It actually came to remind me of an adult book I read last year, The 500: A Novel, which I really, really hated.
If I had to write a description for this book I would never mention Flick's old flame. I think that aspect of the description is totally bogus. This is all in the beginning of the book so I don't think I'm spoiling anything, but Flick and the "old flame," Joi, are still together. In fact, when Flick enters the school the one thing he regrets about joining is that he'll lose Joi. And, throughout the majority Flick's time at school, which Joi isn't present for, Flick continues to miss her and fantasize about her. This book is one of those cases where they description teases something and then I find myself just waiting and waiting for that to happen and when it doesn't happen until three-quarters of the way through the book, I find that really frustrating.
Backtracking a little, the three-quarters of the book where I was just waiting were actually really good and I wish I could have experienced them for what they were rather than anticipating what was to come. I found the idea of the Mandel school fascinating and reading the course descriptions and hearing about Flick's classes was so interesting. I totally believe it's plausible.
There are a lot of supporting characters, something I don't normally like, and while I did have a little trouble keeping track of all of them I did like them and I thought they all served a purpose. My favorite supporting character was actually Gwendolyn, the highest ranking student at the school (before Flick arrives) and Flick's evil seductress. I'm pretty sure I was not supposed to like her, but I did! She was just so crazy, I loved it.
I won't spoil anything, but the end of the book got kind of crazy. Everything happened very quickly and it crossed over into the unbelievable to me. But the bottom line is that I liked the concept, I liked the characters, and I do feel comfortable recommending this, just don't go into it expecting a showdown between former lovers.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Majorly twisty look at psychopaths and nature vs. nurture
By Shae
Originally reviewed at http://www.shaelit.com/2014/02/review-how-to-lead-a-life-of-crime-by-kirsten-miller/
Ignore the cover copy for a moment. We’ll get back to it. What you need to know is that Flick hates his father. I mean, he HATES his father, and by the end you will, too. Flick’s dad is an amoral billionaire with a trickster’s mind and a boxer’s fist. After his brother’s death, Flick runs away from military school and ends up in New York, where he’s recruited by Daddy Dearest’s alma mater – the Mandel Academy. At first, Flick isn’t interested. He doesn’t want to be a CEO, politician, or banker. But the course catalog is like nothing he’s ever seen. Instead of history, languages, mathematics, and home ec, the students at Mandel are treated to courses on extortion, enforcement, wartime racketeering, slave rings, and cyber warfare. The current headmaster of the school wants to use Flick to prove a point and in return he’ll give Flick the proof to destroy his father.
This book could have gone so wrong. Any book that boasts a cast of murderers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and conmen must fight the temptation to wallow in graphic details. We could have been subjected to a long tale of lowlifes and scum, their petty wants and desires smashing against each other in a fight to come out on top. And, in a way, we are. Mandel Academy is an institution that promotes survival of the fittest. The strong prosper; the weak are destroyed. Compassion, mercy, pity, and benevolence have no place inside the academy walls unless they’re being used as a trick to get ahead. There are no friends in Mandel, no loyalties, no selfless sacrifices. There are only competitors fighting to reach the light at the end of the tunnel – graduation.
How To Lead a Life of Crime saves itself from plot predictability in several ways. First, there’s the voice. Flick is fantastic. He’s a smart kid, clever not only in book smarts but in his ability to read people and apply that knowledge to his current situation. Like some of my favorite tricksters, he presents himself as a twisted, selfish jerk but sticks closely to his own set of morals. He does not break under the will of another – be that person parent, professor, or peer – and he bends only enough to slip free. He guards his soft spots carefully, allowing us readers to see but no one else. Flick also carefully balances a unique blend of strength and frailty, fighting the powers in Mandel even as he battles hallucinations of his dead brother.
The second way Life of Crime saves itself is through characterization. I have unending love for our tricky Flick and his soft underbelly, but the other characters are just as fascinating. It’s a hackneyed ploy to compare a cutthroat story to The Hunger Games, but in this case I think it’s apt. Like THG, Life of Crime gives us a varied cast of characters. Some are innocents, but most are not. Some are villains because of their circumstances; others, because of their nature. We want our protagonist to win, to take it all, but we also secretly root for others to get through as well, or at least triumphant over the most evil of the other players. I also like that Ms. Miller fiddles with gender expectation through the characters. For instance, would you expect a meth dealer to be male or female? A prostitute, male or female? The most feared student at Mandel, male or female? Likely, you guessed wrong. Even the climax messed with my expectation in the most FANTASTIC way. [Read the original review to see the SPOILER.]
The third and (in my opinion) best way Life of Crime saves itself is through psychology. This book messed with my mind, and I LOVED it. Everything that happens exists on shifting layers of deception, motivation, and meaning. Everyone screws with everyone else. The students lie, steal, intimidate, and even murder their fellows in an attempt to get ahead. Pacts are made and broken, hierarchies are formed, ultimatums are handed down. The headmaster and professors do the same, pitting students against each other and alternating between frightening and rewarding their psychopaths in training to keep from betraying the school. Flick doesn’t trust anyone, so we as readers learn not to trust anyone either.
But Ms. Miller pulls out some major psychological twistiness on a level that I don’t think I’ve encountered in my fiction before. Every book has a character who Speaks The Truth. Most of the time, it’s the main character who gives us the appropriate beliefs and worldview to appropriate in the world we’re inhabiting. Sometimes it’s a wise old mentor who corrects the protagonist’s (and, by extension, our) foolish beliefs and headstrong ways. Sometimes it’s a love interest who opens the main character up to a whole new world. No matter who it is, this mouthpiece is usually set up and identified early on in the novel so that we as readers know who to trust. In this book, Ms. Miller gives us several voices to listen to. Some are clearly more trustworthy than others when it comes to morals, while others reign in the area of logistics and survival. As readers, we think we’re being discerning and wise as we choose our voices, but then Ms. Miller yanks it all away. I can’t give away how it all goes down, but it’s brilliant. Even the cover copy feeds into our expectations only to later subvert them epically.
I love every single aspect of this book. Literally, every single aspect. Even the ending, which I wasn’t so sure about when I finished, has grown on me, because I can trace back how it ties into the rest of the narrative. Ms. Miller opens up a thought-provoking discussion on nature vs. nurture, the difference between psychopaths and sociopaths and how each comes to be, and humanity’s propensity for good and evil. She also virtually guarantees that you’ll never look at any public figure the same way again.
Points Added For: The Peter Pan theme, Joi (who rocks my socks!), the psychological trickery, psychopaths and sociopaths, a coursework that I would genuinely enjoy (but only as an intellectual exercise, I promise).
Points Subtracted For: I’m not sure how I feel about the depiction of mental illness and would like a second opinion from someone more knowledgeable. I also didn’t like the straight-faced use of polygraphs, which are SO easy to fool.
Good For Fans Of: Psychopaths, psychological thrillers, crime and criminals, studies of human nature, I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Notes For Parents: Language, suicide, attempted rape, drinking, all kinds of crimes and villainy (hello, school for psychopaths!)
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