#th:monaco

-The MC is a seasoned thief with notoriety and infamy. Yes, that is the first thing I’m bringing up because my god. This alone makes the book SOOOOOO much better, because the fish out of water MC is way overdone. The MC starts at the top and loses everything, and throughout the book they regain their glory through hard work.

-Oh yeah, it’s gender of choice too. GOC books are typically of pretty good quality, and I’m glad the guys in the fandom got a gender of choice book this great, because they get scraps honestly.

-The soundtrack is really well done and gets me hyped every time.

-IT USES THE POINTS SYSTEM! YES BITCHES!

-The Trust system was also a nice touch, but POINTS SYSTEM!

-There are not one, not two, but THREE female love interests, while there are only two male love interests. This was pretty groundbreaking at the time.

-Sonia and her enemies to lovers route was to die for. It was really, really well done. Probably the best of its kind in the entire game.

-That one artwork of Eris and the fireworks. It was so beautiful.

-The game doesn’t cram diamond outfits down your throat every single chapter, and most of the outfits actually serve a purpose rather than just impressing some rando.

-The fight between Rye, Eris, and MC stemming from Rye’s unwitting betrayal resolves quickly and with no pettiness. Yes, you read this correctly. As opposed to other stories where the fights and drama are dragged out and beaten to death, the disagreement between these three characters resolves very fast and very nicely.

-All the crew members are awesome, are super fleshed out, and have their own flaws, aspirations, personalities, relationships with other crew members, and motivations for joining the crew.

-ALSO, the diamond crew members are absolutely worth their weight in diamonds. I’m not saying Jones, Sybil, and Graves aren’t good crew members, but I’m saying Lena, Edison, and Miranda are 1000% worth it and you should absolutely take the plunge and buy them.

-Miranda and Marguerite’s romance is just adorable and I love that we got to help them get together if we recruited Miranda.

-The plot doesn’t drag on. Every plot point resolves neatly within a chapter.

-Romance takes a much-needed backseat due to the nature of this book, but is still present and done very well.

-The heist itself at the end of the book is worth the wait, and I loved every goddamn minute of it.

-We can actually fail at the end of the story. The points system can lead to a Good Ending, an Average Ending, or a Bad Ending. In other points system books, you still win at the end. Kenna defeats Azura and saves the Five Kingdoms, and Sam and Dave solve the case. But in this one, if you fail, you’re doomed to be on the run for the rest of your days while Ansel is still at large and hunting you down.

-Additionally, depending on how much trust you’ve built with each individual crew member over the course of the book, your crew will get their own unique endings, Good or Bad.

MC Lineup 2/?

From left to right:

Phoebe Eier, Rochelle Jeng, Kira Li

4200 is the highest heist score you can get without spending any diamonds

Assuming that you don't get any heist points in the next chapter (day of the heist) unless you get 100 for every crew members trust you've received and if you have enough trust with Sonia (and if you released Whisper from prison since those who have Sybil haven't seen her since), these are the best you can do, thus giving you the "best ending". Hopefully, you can still do really well on the heist without having spent diamonds.

Having anything higher than 4200 could warrant an even better ending, with a heist score in the 5000s resulting in the greatest possible ending. If not, it's a 1200 difference between the diamond and no-diamond score. So maybe the categories for how well you did on the heist depends on that number? Like

?? > 4200 = greatest possible end ??

5400 - 4200 = best end

4100 - 2900 = good end

2800 - 1600 = okay end

1500 - 300 = bad end

< 300 = go directly to jail do not pass Go, do not collect $200

Feeling the wind in your hair when you are driving with him. It's so fast but somehow you are not afraid to crash. You trust him and he teaches you what it means to live in the moment.

Of course he also likes to repair his cars personally. You like to watch him then, when he is covered in sweat and motor oil, only wearing some dirty old pair of jeans and a white tank top that highlights his pecs and muscular upper arms. What you don't know is that he spots you and then likes to give you a show, for example by messing up his hair ... or by slowly taking his shirt of and ...

Your life together is a constant run from the law. Different countries, different houses, different identities... you can never really build friendships or a home in one place, so your home is each other. And you wouldn't trade it for the world.

Making plans, sharing dreams for a life when you don't have to hide anymore, knowing full well that you will probably never be able to realize them...

He is a giant fan of every movie that features cars in whatever way. And he makes you watch them all. (His favorite one tho is The Love Bug but he has you swear not to tell anybody )

The cramped room is only illuminated by the dim light of the TV that shows the newest addition to the Fast & Furious series. You don't really understand what Fab likes about those movies, in your eyes they seem like an exhausting mix of bad one liners and unnecessary explosions - but as he pulls you closer and you breathe in his tangy odour, listening to the rumble in his chest as he laughs about Vin Diesel's joke, you guess you can deal with it, right?

And uh. You love his smell. It's so manly and dominant. And it turns you on. Sometimes you take his leather jacket of the hook just to smell it. You are crazy😂

Fabien is a great cook. He particularly likes to cook dishes from his home country that include a lot of herbs and exotic seasoning. It's also really spicy sometimes and he laughs wholeheartedly when you turn red and down a whole bottle of water because it's so hot 🌡🔥while he can eat the whole plate without having to flinch once.

He likes to collect model cars and he is livid when other people touch them. He tries to keep it as secret as possible because he thinks it'll ruin his reputation but you love this dorky side of him... until one day you accidentally knock one model of the shelf.😳😱 Uh oh.

Fab is a bit of a hot head, so he can get in a rage real quick. But usually this doesn't last long. He often enters your room then with his sad face and those puppy eyes that say sorry - and how could you be mad any longer?

and OH. GOSH. His eyes 😍 *swoon*

"Ehm. Hello? You don't enter my car with your dirty shoes, I just deep cleaned it." *Silence* "No seriously, take 'em off. I have a cover in the back."

💫Star gazing and pillow fights🌌🌔🌠

listening to tales of his home country. He is very proud of his heritage and whenever he talks about the Middle East, his eyes light up, but there is also a melancholic hint of yearning and sadness. You wish that one day, when you don't have to hide anymore, you can visit it together - this country with diamond cities full of mysteries under a burning desert sun, with crystal lakes guarded by snow topped mountains and a sunset red as blood... 🌄🧞‍♂️

💫One of your most romantic moments includes you two sitting on top of a cliff at night, his car only a few meters behind. Fabien lights a fire and puts his leather jacket around your shoulder to keep you warm. He sings a song to you in a beautifully poetic arabic, his voice so deep and rough that it's hard to imagine its usually cocky tone. You get goosebumps and your heart tightens. It's in that moment that you know you can't live without him🎶💞

He was brought up very conservative, but sometimes, when you walk in front of him and look back at him teasingly, a little PDA is unavoidable: Fabien then can't help but press your back against him ("Can you feel what you do to me, Habibi?") and whisper into your ear all the things he's gonna do to you...

He is the born charmer, no seriously - he attracts women like light attracts moth, and can they really be blamed with his suave demeanor, the chocolate brown eyes and the scruff that makes him look so damn sexy? Often Sometimes you are so jealous that you have to go up to where he is talking to some blonde barbie and introduce yourself. "Hi, let me introduce myself, I'm Fabien's... "

Fabien himself doesn't like to share either and you guess that's just fair. However, at the end of the day both of you know that you can trust each other and that's what matters🙂

He is really competitive, and I mean REALLY. Sometimes you can get annoyed by his "I am better than anyone else" attitude, but then he flashes you this smile he saved just for you and your anger melts away.

And boy, he also right anyway, he is the best at... well, yeah. Basically everything😎

He is a very passionate lover and he knows exactly how to make use of his fingers ... or his tongue... or... 😚 And his stamina is exceptional. Sometimes you receive a text message that just reads "I'll make you scream tonight. Get some rest." And you know you are in for a wild ride.