I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
by Ally Carter
Published by Hyperion
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Reviewed by Linda Lee
Gallagher Academy is a school for girls interested in joining the Alpha Net: FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. Only students and staff understand this quirk of the school. It appears to be a place for female geniuses, and is--only it is so much more.
Cammie Morgan is a second-generation Gallagher girl who speaks fourteen languages and knows how to kill a man seven different ways (one of them using uncooked spaghetti)--so she's no dummy. Except when it comes to boys. While on a class assignment in town she meets such a creature.
Josh likes Cammie and thinks she is a home-schooled, over-protected, teenage girl, much like all the other girls he knows. She wants to keep her boyfriend and her secret identity. It starts out difficult and only gets harder.
With friends who will watch her back and help her find the escape routes from school to town, life becomes an adventure. With teachers who need her to learn surveillance techniques and how to move sight unseen through a crowd, life becomes challenging.
How can she be the normal girl Josh needs and be the super spy she was born to be? Using high-tech tools and her teenage wits, Cammie sets out to master it all, but finds strategy and subterfuge are hard to blend with romance.
Don't expect to hide this book with the local paper and get by with the subterfuge while reading it. Giggles and guffaws will blow your cover.
Armchair Interviews says: Delightful young adult read.