Everything starts falling apart for Jack Shannon when his mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. While his older sister thinks this is their family's chance to finally go straight, Jack knows that something isn't right. He knows his mom was sold out by Peter Carlevaro, a rival casino owner and jilted lover. Jack hatches a plan to find out what Carlevaro's holding over his mom's head, and recruits his closest friends to help - the asexual support group he met through online forums. Now all he has to do is infiltrate a high-stakes gambling club and dodge family secrets, all while navigating what it means to be in love while asexual. Sounds easy enough, right?

Overall, I thought this one was just okay. The book is marketed as a heist novel, but we only really got the action in the last 50 pages or so. A lot of the time there wasn't much happening and I found that the story dragged a lot in the middle. The cast of characters is huge, however I felt like a lot of them were just there as plot devices. I also wish that the friend group was more developed because you can tell how important they are to Jack. I enjoyed that this is quite different from what I usually read, but the execution left me feeling a little unsatisfied.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC, which I received in exchange for an honest review.

WOW. I did not know what to expect, but I was not disappointed. I hope more books like this are written in the future. I love the club of aces, the heist, everything!!!!!

I read the synopsis of this book and *instantly* requested it. The Kaz Brekker vibes, an asexual cast and romance, AND a heist? I knew it was something I instantly wanted. Unfortunately, the story didn't quite live up to the hype I'd created. That is partially my fault for getting my hopes to high up for this story, but I also think this story had such a potential and I wish the author and editors had spent more time on the story. My main issue with the story was the characters. Now, I will say that the ace rep was everything I wanted and more. I felt so seen in these characters and loved the author's intentionality in creating these characters. However, other than that, I thought the characters fell incredibly flat. I am a HUGE character-driven fan and this book's failure to move their characters from two dimensional to three dimensional was really disappointing. I think each of these characters had such a potential if more time had been spend on the editing. My other main issue was that the heists were quite boring. I knew I couldn't expect anything like Six of Crows or The Gilded Wolves since this was set in the modern world and not a fantasy one, but I felt like the author didn't take the time to develop the heists or even make them interesting. They should've been the most interesting part of the book, but were so boring. Overall, I wish more time had been taking in the editing stage of this book because I truly believe it had such a potential but failed to fully get there.

2.5 stars.

So, I guess this book wasn’t bad, but it also wasn’t that good… I initially got the e-ARC, but gave up on it around 40% because it was just boring. And unrealistic. Like, your Vegas-casino-owning mom has been thrown in jail, mostly for sketchy reasons involving another sketchy Vegas casino owner, so your 17yo self is going to sneak into his ultra super secret casino to rip him off and free your mom? Along with your ragtag group of friends? I don’t think so.

I gave up, but then had the chance to get an audio-ARC, so figured that would be the way to finish it off, which I did. It didn’t get any better. I don’t quite understand how a book can be so boring, yet so wildly unrealistic. You would think that the hijinks would have kept my interest? But no, alas.

I liked the idea that the group of friends were all asexual and that they met on a Discord-esque platform. However, that played almost no role in the story. I feel like I could see what the author was trying to do, but it just didn’t quite get there. The side characters were also pretty meh and one dimensional, as I can barely remember anything about them.

Overall, a really disappointing book.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review. ARC provided by Peachtree.

Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school’s basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do?

Everything starts falling apart when Jack’s mom is arrested for their family’s ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family’s chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something’s not right. His mom was sold out, and he knows by who. Peter Carlevaro: rival casino owner and jilted lover. Gross.

Jack hatches a plan to find out what Carlevaro’s holding over his mom’s head, but he can not do it alone. He recruits his closest friends—the asexual support group he met through fandom forums. Now all he has to do is infiltrate a high-stakes gambling club and dodge dark family secrets, while hopelessly navigating what it means to be in love while asexual. Easy, right?

The concept of this book was really great. This was advertised as a story about a heist, but there really was not much of a heist. Or at least it felt like there was no heist. The heist scenes were boring.I did love that this book was about a group of asexual teenagers and found family. The representation of that was done so well. I felt like there was not much depth to the characters, and I did not really care for the main character, Jack. I loved the other characters, but I felt like it was not realistic that all of the characters were so skilled, and that a group of teenagers could get away with a heist. I wished I was able to know more about the side characters, but the book mainly just focused on Jack. I would have liked to see more character development and more than a surface level story. The ending felt a bit rushed, and kind of ambiguous for my taste, but overall, it was a fine story. I was just looking for more, especially with such a stellar setting and plot potential.

I loved this book! I never wanted it to end! The characters were so well written! The story was so fresh and new!! I can’t wait to read more from this author!

‘Aces Wild: A Heist’ by Amanda DeWitt
Published by: Peachtree Teen, September 2022

This review may contain spoilers!

Synopsis: Jack Shannon is the youngest child of Eileen Shannon, owner of the Golden Age casino and unchallenged Queen of the Vegas strip. Unchallenged that is, until now. When Eileen is arrested and the Shannon empire faces destruction, it’s up to Jack and his misfit band of internet friends to save the day. Think a Gen-Z Ocean’s Eleven. The stakes are high, and these cards are wild.

Review: This is not a love story. Jack says that himself at the opening of the book, and the reason for this is Jack and his friends are all Asexual.

Asexual representation in YA books is going through something of a renaissance at the moment with Alice Oseman’s ‘Loveless’ catapulting Ace rep into the limelight back in 2020 and although there have been a number of excellent Ace characters and stories over the years as an asexual myself I’ve certainly never been confronted with the sheer choice of stories to read as I am right now.

What attracted me to Aces Wild though wasn’t just the snazzy cover, or the ace representation. It was the word ‘heist.’ A lot of Asexual books I’ve read have bee lovely stories about teens and young adults in college, high school, university, making friends, living lives. Stories that are great, but not thrilling. This book changed that for me - the Asexuality in this book is what made the main characters friends, but it’s not why they’ve come together in the story. It was a refreshing change to have the Asexuality be there almost as a footnote to the main plot of the story instead of another book about a character struggling with their Ace identity. The gang in this story are all perfectly comfortable with their sexuality thank you very much, they’re here to heist.

That’s not to say that ace struggles don’t have their place on the landscape of YA of course, but variety is the spice of life and reading this fun little thriller was a pleasant change.

One of the novels strengths for me were the characters - well written and unique without straying into cartoonish territory or even worse, tokenism. When you’re reading you get a real sense that this is just a small section of these characters lives and it avoids needless background and exposition on every little detail of what has gone before. You get interesting insights into their lives (such as Lucky’s mum being a world famous chef, or Gabe’s penchant for dressing like Grayson Perry) but the point is never laboured over at the expense of plot.

Aside from Ace rep in this book there’s also some nods to deaf rep (Jack’s sister Kerry has a cochlear implant, and at one point her old hearing aid is very useful for a scheme.) A main character is also non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, and amazingly everyone manages to use them and the world doesn’t implode, imagine that!

I think the strengths in this book lie in two main areas: one, that it is a story about friendship featuring well written characters you become invested in. Characters you care about.

And two, it shows that we asexuals are much more than just our sexuality. We have friends, we have lives, we have drama. Sometimes we even rob casinos.

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“A found family of asexual teens bands together for an epic Las Vegas heist” is easily the best single-line book concept I’ve heard in years! I knew from the start that Aces Wild was going to be a great read, but it surpassed my already high expectations. From the hilarity of teenage heist hijinxs, to the fantastic character development on page, Aces Wild has something for every reader. This book has earned one of my rarely-used six star reviews, for its flawless storytelling, and for the number of times I actually laughed out loud while reading!

There are not nearly enough books with ace-spectrum characters out in the world right now, let alone ones that focus on ace teens living their lives and having adventures of their own. The literary world desperately needs more books like Aces Wild: fun and emotionally resonant books featuring characters from across the asexuality spectrum. I can tell you right now that Aces Wild is going to be a book I recommend for years to come!

My Recommendation-
If you love stories packed with found family, queer characters, and heist adventures, you need to grab a copy of Aces Wild as soon as possible! I would especially recommend this book to fans of the movie Red Notice or Oceans 8.

Jack Shannon has it all, until the day his mother is arrested. Summoned back to Las Vegas and his family hotel, Jack has limited time to clear his mother’s name. Luckily, he has suspicions about who would want to see his mother behind bars and the hotel in someone else’s hands. To pull off a heist to obtain proof, he’ll need all of his best friends to join him. As the stakes rise, how far must Jack go for his family and the hotel? Which is more important to him?

Aces Wild was a fun adventure! My favorite part was the asexual representation and found family. It took me some time to warm up to Jack, but as the heist began to take shape he became more likable. Remy was one of my favorite characters, I really enjoyed their positive attitude and loyalty to their friends. There were a couple plot holes that didn’t quite make sense, but I still enjoyed the story. If you can suspend your disbelief and enjoy heists, found family, and ace rep then you should check out Aces Wild! Thank you to Amanda DeWitt, Peachtree Teen, and Netgalley for a free ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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I really liked this book! There aren’t enough books with asexual characters as the MC, let alone the full group of characters we spend the most time with. The asexuality was represented really well with characters of different genders (girls, boys, and a nonbinary person) as well as different places on the ace spectrum (at least one character was aromantic as well as asexual, and one character was mentioned to have been in a sapphic relationship).
The book was fast paced and the narrator was funny. It was in first person, from the POV of the MC, Jack. He was a sarcastic teenager and was amusing and still relatable even though I am no longer a teenager!
I also really loved that the story focused on how online friendships can be just as important (or even more so) than in-person ones. There was a bit of wish fulfillment where Jack and his friends finally get to meet in person, which I’m sure many people who read Aces Wild will feel envy towards Jack.
On the surface, Jack wouldn’t be someone I find relatable, with him being a rich, white boy. However, the book was written in a way that both featured some escapism into a world I never would be able to afford without being maddening, as well as showing how Jack’s life isn’t perfect even though he grew up in a wealthy family.
Overall, I would highly recommend this book, especially to queer Gen Z readers!

What an insane read! The setting is so interesting and original, I loved it. And the characters are sympathetic and enjoyable to follow; thé villain convinced me, which is not an easy thing to do. I highly recommend this book if you are looking for a fun, original & entertaining read!

This was so much fun! I was drawn into the story immediately and immediately sympathetic to the main character. He was sarcastic, self-deprecating, funny, and a very believable teenager -- some of my favorite things in a protagonist. He made a lot of very realistic, very bad decisions, especially early on when he felt like he was alone and his world was falling apart. Sometimes he even knew they were bad decisions and he still made them. He was a very realistic teenager, in other words.

I LOVE that the entire crew he pulls together for his heist are ace. It's such a fun detail, and so relatable - not having friends in your immediate surroundings but connecting with people all over the country on fanfiction forums and then forming a chat support group for ace people? Definitely felt familiar, which drew me in even more. I almost felt like I was a member of the group and in on their shenanigans.

The heist itself sometimes took a backseat to the family and friend group drama, but I'm ok with that. There was still plenty of heist action there, but I was there for the character interactions anyway as I generally prefer character driven to plot driven stories. I love love loved the characters. They were all such individuals, with unique characteristics and mannerisms that didn't feel forced at all. They felt like real people you might find anywhere. Well, they felt like real teenagers that you might meet at the outskirts of the school social scene, which is where I've always been the most comfortable. In short - I wanted to be their friend too. They were very obviously my people.

I like how the 'being ace' aspect was handled, as well as the tentative love story. It was sweet and realistic and believable... and familiar. Aside from the whole heist thing, it could have been me and my friends in high school and college.

That sense of familiarity, of belonging, made me love this book 1000x more than I would have based solely on the plot. Obviously not everyone is going to feel this sentimental about the book and characters, but I think a lot of people will really see themselves here and feel seen.

Las Vegas was an excellent choice of setting because the glitter and glamour made an excellent contrast to the seriousness of the beginning and then an excellent background and distraction during the plotting and executing of the heist itself. I've never been to Las Vegas, but after reading this I feel like I was there. The descriptions didn't ever try to take over the story like in some books, but I still felt like everything was very grounded in a specific place and could even almost see it playing out in my head. in fact I did see it that way - I have very specific visual memories of events in the book. It was like watching a movie. Ocean's 11, but with teenagers.

The audiobook was narrated flawlessly and I love the narrator and the choices he made for the different voices and the way he told the story. Just perfect all around. I bumped the speed up to 2x because he spoke a little slowly for my taste - many people do - and it was still perfectly clear and easy to understand and all the emotion came through easily.

*Thanks to NetGalley, Peachtree Teen, and Recorded Books for providing an e-arc and audio arc for review.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC

As an asexual person i was soooo excited for this book aces going on a heist ?!? couldn’t have asked for anything more

I really love the found family aspect of this book, it’s a big part of it and i appreciate it sm it rlly carried the book and made me wanna keep reading

HOWEVER this book fell flat for me. i’m not sure if it’s because i had high expectations and was very excited for it but the plot itself just wasn’t that interesting, the character development was lacking and can we even call that a heist fr ?!?

I do think the book had lots of potential and i do rlly like of the plot and characters etc i just don’t think it was executed that great

Rating this 3 stars is pretty generous tbh but i rlly do love the ace rep and it didn’t rlly good in that aspect

"My name is Jack Shannon, and this is not a love story. It's a confession."

I think the biggest factor that will determine whether you like this book or not is what your expectations are going into it. I went into this expecting ridiculous shenanigans and a relatable and lovable ace friend group. I was expecting an entertaining story that wouldn't require much mental and emotional energy, and I was expecting the vibes to be sorta like those completely unrealistic spy movies where they do all sorts of impossible things. In my opinion, I got exactly what I was looking for.

Let's start with what this book is not:
-This is not a fast-paced, action-filled heist. If you want a book that's mainly heist or even largely heist, this is probably not the right book for you. Most of the book is spent planning and gathering information for the heist that doesn't happen until near the end.
-It is not realistic fiction. If you're looking for realism in your stories, this book is not for you. The friendship between the five main characters was realistic, based on my experience of queer friend groups, and the teenage characters made realistically poor and unreasonable decisions. In all other regards, this is very much a story and does not reflect reality.
-This is not a work of high literature. It is not really deep and meaningful, and it isn't trying to teach a moral lesson or make you reexamine your beliefs.

What this book is:
-This book is a lot of fun. It is chaotic at times. I was very entertained. I enjoyed it a lot. I would, in fact, recommend it.
-It's surprisingly touching and heartwarming, considering all the crime and rule-breaking. It may not be a very deep story, but I connected to the characters and their emotional experiences, and I think the story has a lot of heart.
-It has an all-asexual main cast.
-It is, actually, a love story. Love, in various different forms, is really the essence of this story. Everything happened the way it did because of love.
-It's found family in a form I haven't seen in media very often. Jack and his friends met through a fandom forum online and slowly became best friends without ever meeting in person. They all really care about each other while still bickering and teasing, and they've always got each other's backs.
-The romance, although it plays a minor role, is cute and sweet. I loved that Jack talked about the difficulties of navigating a crush as an ace person and how it's hard to know what that looks like when you never see ace relationships represented in media.
-did I mention the main characters are all ace

I almost didn't pick up this book due to the mixed reviews it's received so far, but I'm honestly really glad I did (and also that I did so after they'd fixed the ableist plot point involving hacking a hearing aide). A lot of people have pointed out that the marketing and title are misleading, and that's not entirely wrong. The heist doesn't happen until near the end of the book, and it happens pretty quickly. There are, however, a lot of heist-related shenanigans leading up to that. Nevertheless, I would actually argue that the title is a perfect fit. It makes sense within the context of the book, and, with Jack as our narrator, what else could it be called? Aces Wild: A Heist is absolutely what Jack would have named it, and this is his confession, afterall. I really do wish the marketing had made it clear that this isn't really a heist story, though. I think the lack of clarity on this has done the book a great disservice and led to a lot of negative reviews that wouldn't otherwise exist.

"I was the one who was going to grow up in her image, the way she did her father's, and take over the Golden Age someday. If anyone was going to fix this, it should be me. At least, I was the only person who seemed interested in doing anything besides damage control.
Personally, I was a little more interested in doing some damage."

I know this is going to make Jack sound bad, but bear with me. He's a much better character than his background makes him sound. Jack is a ridiculously priveleged kid running up against an actual obstacle for the first time in his life, and he is coping terribly with it. He's grown up in a world where you can fix anything by throwing money at it, and he's always had the money to do it. Now, his mom is imprisoned without bail, her accounts are frozen, nobody believes him about the foul play, he stands to lose his family legacy, and he's the only one who cares about the latter. He's alone with no allies dealing with the worst thing that's ever happened to him.

Enter: Aces Wild (though they weren't called that at the time).

After his older sister extends an olive branch to him by saying he can invite his friends to Vegas if he stays out of trouble, Jack sees an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: having his friends there will convince his sister to (mostly) leave him alone so he can set his plans in motion, and, more importantly, it gives him an excuse to finally see his best friends—Remy, Gabe, Georgia, and Lucky, the online ace support group turned found family, and the only real friends he even has—in person. Jack doesn't intend to get them involved with his scheming. He doesn't mean to pull them into the plot to ruin Carlevaro and save his mom and the Golden Age, their family's hotel and casino, but you know how queer friend groups are. One member's problem is everyone's problem, and they'll be damned if they let Jack fight this battle on his own. What follows is a dash of danger, a lot of crime, more running than expected, a healthy dose of scheming, shenanigans of course, and, undeniably, love.

"Just don't look so hard toward the future that you forget the people you want in it."

I love Jack's friend group dearly, and they all fit so well together not despite their differences, but, in part, because of them. Each of them have skills and personality traits that end up being necessary in order to pull off Jack's plans. They all contribute something invaluable to the team, the most valuable thing being their love for and support of each other.

"All I wanted was to be here with you in real life."

Aces Wild may not be what you expect when you hear the words 'love story,' but it is a love story. The entire plot is driven by love, whether it's Jack's love for his mom and the Golden Age, his sisters' love for Jack, the friend group's love for each other, Jack's not-so-subtle crush, or Carlevaro's love of getting what he wants. Jack doesn't know what to do if his plan fails. For him, all the fun he's having with his friends? None of that is real. It's a fantasy he gets to live in for a moment. After this, his friends go back to their lives and families. But if they fail, there isn't any 'real life' for Jack to go back to. This is his life—the Shannon family legacy, the Golden Age, Blackjack. It's all he has. And a large part of the plot is Jack realizing that that isn't quite true. He has his sisters, he has his dad (unreliable as he may be), and he has his friends. Remy, Gabe, Georgia, and Lucky. Friends who will fly across the country to see him because he asked. Friends who, without him even suggesting it, are willing to risk not only trouble but legal ramifications and potential danger to help him. Friends who are just relieved to find out he's okay after he yells at them and storms off. Friends who just want to be there with him in real life.

At the end of the day, this is a story about Jack learning how to put his world back together after it's all fallen apart, and realizing that maybe, just maybe, it never really fell apart in the first place; he was just looking in the wrong places.

"So yeah, all right, maybe it's a little bit of a love story after all."

Ace teens! Found family and real family dynamics! A casino heist! This book is fun. The heist part is the least interesting about it though. But I love these characters and enjoyed reading about them even though the plot was not super compelling. More books about ace cliques, please!
Thank you to netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review

Thank you to Amanda DeWitt, Peachtree Teen, and NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

This was honestly one of my favorite reads of the year so far! The story follows a group of kids (united by a common factor) planning a heist let by protagonist Jack Shannon--a boy whose mother recently got arrested under questionable circumstances.

I also really enjoyed the ace representation, as it is a representation that we do not usually see in traditionally published books! (We could use a little more of it). I loved how, even though the title puts aces quite literally at the forefront, it was not the main focus of the story. Rather, it was the glue that stuck them together.

Overall this was a fun little story of found family with a big scoop of chaotic heisty goodness that I would recommend to people of all ages! Even though the characters are in the YA-age range, this story could easily be enjoyed by adults as well as younger teens and tweens (with one character even being a tween as well).

(This review is based on an advanced reader’s copy provided by NetGalley.)

I was drawn in by the premise but disappointed by the execution. I just couldn’t bring myself to care much about the plot until the last 10% or so. In the last 10% there were some major reveals that I didn’t see coming but felt obvious in retrospect, which IMO is the best kind of reveal: neither too predictable nor a non sequitur.

The main character may be hard for many readers to sympathize with, since he’s an extremely rich kid trying to protect his casino magnate mom from facing consequences for her corrupt business dealings. That said, I enjoyed the character relationships and wished the book spent more time on that. It reminded me of The One True Me and You in its portrayal of teens getting to meet their internet friends in person for the first time.

This book got off to a slow start. There were also a lot of characters to try to keep track of in the beginning. I would say things picked up once all the Aces Wild group got together in person. I absolutely loved their friendship with one another and the fact that this book gave us 5 asexual characters!

As for the heist itself, I was a bit let down. The fact that it’s right there on the cover gave me the impression that it would be a lot more exciting. But that’s a personal preference.

I do greatly appreciate that this author took the comments and critiques over her use of a hearing aid as part of the heist and fixed that!

I think that this one will be enjoyed by anyone looking for more asexual representation in fiction because that representation was the best part of this books in my opinion.

"Let's get one thing straight: this is not a love story."

Five aces walk into a casino... no seriously, they do. And they are ridiculously good at gambling.

My quick brief of this story would go like this:
A gaggle of aces team up to gamble and try to get rid of the blackmailer from the Las Vegas streets. What could go wrong?

But in reality, there is a lot more that follows.

Jack Shannon is a blackjack extraordinaire. Well, why wouldn't he be, with his mother owning one of the famous casinos on the Las Vegas strip, where he was brought up and taught how to gamble just as you and I were taught our ABC's?

Everything was fine for him, he was successfully running a blackjack club in his school, he was chatting with his online friends in their group chat daily, and he barely had to see his father which is always a plus. It was all going smoothly... until his mother was arrested.

Now, Jack is back in Las Vegas with the rest of his family and meeting all of his online friends in life for the first time.

Emotions and frustration are high as he tries to come up with a plan to save his mother, his family and their home and business.

But does he really need to do it alone?

Aces Wild is a story of Friendship, Family and High Stakes. What lengths would you go through to protect someone you love? Whether it be a family member, close friend or lover?


This story was absolutely brilliant! I was fully immersed in the story, in love with all of the characters as soon as they were put onto the page (I have a special love for Remy, my nonbinary child who I want to protect at all costs) and the action and tension just kept growing with each chapter.

I honestly could not recommend this story enough, I stayed up late, my eyes drooping and wanting to close because I needed to finish it!

Just like gambling, this book and its characters are addicting but in the best way possible (that definitely won't put you in debt!).

For lovers of queer characters, risky plans and online friends finally meeting each other in real life, this book has everything to draw you in and make you never want to leave.

But in the words of Jack Shannon himself, I need to remind you.

"This is not a love story. It's a confession."

What do you do when a crew of asexual teens decide to play “Ocean’s 11” when one of their own’s mother has been thrown in jail and his family’s casino legacy is on the line? Well, you get this bouncy, clever, cute, and screwball YA casino heist novel, “Aces Wild”.

This is the third title from Peachtree Teen I’ve read this year so far, and so far they’re knocking it out of the park with these unique titles in the OwnVoices category. Saying that I enjoyed reading a YA book where the last thing most of these teens are thinking of is sex seems incredibly patronizing and reductive, but I can’t deny that taking the usual sex and objectification that would usually be part and parcel in your usual heist novel out of the equation leaves a lot of room for more story, more actions, more genuine friendship and character development, and just a more well-rounded story all around.

Now, I’ve never been to Vegas, so I can’t tell you if half the stuff the characters manage to do in this book are even possible. I mean, from what I’ve seen in other movies and on television, I don’t think it would work that way, but I chose to suspend my disbelief because the book was fun and an entertaining page-turner full of characters that were so easy to love.

Was the turn a surprise? No. But a lot of this book wasn’t surprising because these kids are just teenagers who are wrapped up in their ideals and want to be the ones to save their friend and the day. Of course they aren’t going to walk away with the keys to the kingdom. But they sure are going to give it their best try, and it’s a lot of fun to read about it all going down.

Thanks to NetGalley and Peachtree Teen for granting me early access to this title.