The Art Thieves asks questions like, what art is worth preserving? And how far would you go to save the ones you love?

Stevie's half brother is allergic to everything, not ideal for an apocalypse. Her job at the museum helps her find fulfillment, and maybe romance, but then she finds out about an impending apocalypse from a time traveller.

Stevie is a Cherokee citizen and her Nativeness and Native community feature prominently. In the real world, Natives already exist in their apocalypse, so seeing how the tribes react to another one was very cool.

This is a Indigenous futurism at its finest. The Art Thieves from the future are trying to preserve things that have been lost to time for the future, the real ones that might get lost to time.

It's up to you as the reader to decide what was worth saving, and if they chose correctly. My opinion is that they did.

Stevie loves to look at The Ladder, whenever their shift allows, they are in the room it calls home, drawing it. Stevie’s little brother Levi is her whole world, alongside her parents, best friends Jess and Loren, and her aunties. But when Adam join the museum as an artist intern, Stevie’s world expands, even as it collapses.

Set in a future impacted by ecological collapse, pandemics, and war, The Art Thieves is heavily inspired by the Afrofuturism movement. Andrea Rogers adapts the movement for her own Cherokee culture with great success. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Afrofuturism, sci-fi stories, and stories of climate change.

Content warning for sexual assault and pedophilia.

Let me start by saying this isn't the kind of story I normally gravitate to, but I am a huge fan of Man Made Monsters, so I had to read this one.
Once I started this book, however, I was immediately hooked. There's just something about Andrea Rodgers' writing that just keeps you reading.
So if book about the apocalypse, time travel, and environmentalism are you're thing I highly recommend this book.

I love anything art related so I was intrigued by the title. It was a cute YA that I would recommend to any age