Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Genre: YA Contemporary; Spies
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Release Date: 2009
Spoilers?: No.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
When Cammie Morgan
visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting
end to her summer. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father
accept the nomination for vice president. But when you go to the world's
best school (for spies), "exciting" and "deadly" are never far apart.
Soon the girls find themselves trapped in a kidnappers' plot, with only
their espionage skills to save them.
The Cover:
These American covers are so cheesy. I guess they're what you'd expect from a middle grade spy book, and it works for that. I suppose it caught my eye when I was younger, but it's not to my liking anymore.
Review:
It has been a long
time since I first read the other two books in this series. At that point, I
was at the desired age, in middle school. Now I’m much older, so I was a little
afraid this would be too young for me now, that I’d have outgrown it. I’m happy
to say that it was still really good.
Cammie visits her
friend Macey over summer vacation, thinking it’s going to be an easy time
together while following Macey’s dad through his political campaign. Instead,
they are almost kidnapped. Cammie and Morgan, spies in training, handle it the
best they can. But then Macey gets a high security detail, and they’re both shunned
from getting any information on what happened. Throughout the school year, they
are both on edge, waiting for something to happen, trying to figure out why it
happened, and deal with their first real life mission.
The part that
annoyed me the most, was that no one would tell Cammie anything. They’re
training to be spies, they know how those things work and are getting ready to
do it on their own in the real world. And yet the people who are training them
refuse to tell them anything, even though they’re in the middle of it. That
drove me insane.
But I did like
Cammie and her friends. She’s a pretty average, smart teenage girl. She has a
close group of friends, and she also has a boy that she likes but is conflicted
about. And she’s trying to figure out why someone would try to kidnap her best
friend, when she knows there’s something more to it.
It was exciting,
and super easy to read, and I liked the twist that was thrown in at the end.
I’m not sure if
I’ll read more in the series, but I do want to pick up Carter’s newer series
now.
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