I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you
By Ally Carter
284 Pages
4.5/5
This was a great book, but I read it right after I finished Forever in Blue.. so I wasn't that absorbed. My mind kept bouncing back and forth between the two books.
Cammie Morgan attends Gallagher Academy: an all-girls school for exceptional young women. It is "a fairly typical all-girls school -- that is, it would be if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest chemical welfare in science, and students recieved extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class." The Gallagher academy is a school for spies, despite the fact that others thnk it's simply a school for geniuses. Cammie Morgans beautiful, often-mistaken-for-Cammie's-sister mother in the head of the school.
Cammie Morgan, along with all her other sophomore classmates, is fluent in fourteen languages. When they dine, they are expected to speak the language that is shown on a screen. A new - and very handsome - teacher has a very different way of teaching, compared to other teachers. He's making sure they can all be all-natural spies, and trains them to follow people, look to through their garbage to see how people live (ick), and most definitely, become a spy.
While on the mission, Cammie meets an ordinary boy and falls for him. He likes her too. But although she can greet him in fourteen different languages, she cannot bring herself to tell him the truth about her. Her family, her indentity, anything. She leaves her mission with the boy thinking that she is home-schooled for religious reasons, and has a cat named Suzie. Later on, when they meet again he leaves thinking that her mother home-schools her, her dad works (he's not actually alive), her birthday is November 19th (random day) and that she still has a cat named Suzie (he even buys little cat toys for Suzie.. but Cammie can't tell him she doesn't really have a cat, right?).
But can such a normal boy ever be with such an extraordinarily smart girl? He can never know about her true identity, yet as time passes, they get closer and closer.
"Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, and track him through town without his ever being the wiser - but can she have a relationship with a regular boy?"
I actually think that this book isn't as wild as it may seem, which is good. At first, I thought it would be weird to read about.. spies. But I recommend this book to everyone.
*Jessica
*Would have been 84 hours
*Can be published in a newsletter
1 comment:
Hey Jess:
I read a few other reviews before this one because I thought this book was going to be scary by the title.
I think you might have been disappointed because Brashares is so easily able to weave multiple characters through the plots.
this plot seems so much more simple even though the character is developed differently.
Neat idea for a story.
On the same lines of tracking someone, I was joking with my daughter that my husband should track me the rfid tags in my clothes. They are saying that eventually through these tags, and this technology, they could actually track your whereabouts.
In the meantime, my husband will just have to use his cellphone.
sorry, just sharing useless trivia.
I have to admit, I was a little freaked out when I initially heard about this technology. Whoever tracked me would be incredibly bored: how many times can this woman go to the fridge (I have water in the door so it looks worse that it is); the laundry room and then the bathroom.
where would you be tracked most often? Your friend's house, school or somewhere exciting?
catherine
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