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Title: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Series: The Gallagher Girls #2

Author: Ally Carter

Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Action

Rating: 4 stars

Review:

After the events of last semester, Cammie has promised to behave. This becomes harder after she notices that her mother is worried and she fails a CoveOps assignment. When new people show up at the Gallagher academy, Cammie and her friends suspect that not is all as it seems. What follows are fun hijinks to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Cammie is an absolute wonderful narrator. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book/series with a narrator like Cammie, and I really enjoy her. My favorite part of this book was definitely the ball scene. It was fun and realistic and a little dramatic. This book kept me laughing and I didn’t want to put it down.

In this book, I wish we got to know the side characters a little better. I still love the other characters, but I don’t think we get to know them super well. Before reading this book, I had heard things about the series and thought I would adore Zach. Honestly, I wasn’t sold on him until the very end of the book. I don’t know exactly what it was, but it might have been that he was written too mysteriously that I felt like I didn’t know him enough to root for him.

Overall, a truly wonderful book, with lovely characters. Despite being a school for spies, Gallagher Academy and its inhabitants are realistic and fun to read. My only complaint of Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy is I didn’t get more of an understanding of side characters. I recommend this book to anybody who enjoys light-hearted, action-romance books. I especially think middle school and high school girls would enjoy this book.

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy is book two in the Gallagher Girls series and I think you need to read the first book in order to really understand what is happening in this book.

Goodreads Page for: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

Quotes:

“Zach was still cocky; he was still tough. But on the other hand, he’d offered me candy once when I was hungry, and I couldn’t help thinking that maybe that made him sort of knightlike after all. That maybe it wasn’t his fault his armor was kind of tarnished.”