Only the Good Spy Young

by Ally Carter

Hachette Australia. Young Adult, Mystery. Paperback rrp $16.99


Reviewer – Barbara Brown

Ally Carter is the teenage girl’s equivalent of Ian Fleming. In the Gallagher Girls series there’s everything a spy-in-training could want. Espionage, gadgets to shoot, blow up, even invisible ink!

Cammie Morgan is starting her junior year at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. The Gallagher Academy is no ordinary school. It is a school to train female spies. And Cammie is no ordinary student. Her mother is the Headmistress of the school and her father has been missing for many years, presumed dead. Both parents were high ranking spies and Cammie is now being pursued by a secret sect. Cammie, ‘the Chameleon’ is having trouble hiding.

When one of their own is thought to be a double agent, Cammie’s life is in far greater danger. Who can she trust and where can she get the answers to the puzzles everyone is keeping from her?

Fans of the Gallagher Girls won’t be disappointed in the fourth book in the series, newcomers you will love the action and thrilling storyline and everyone will be eager to read the first three books. The good news is there is definitely a fifth story imminent but the bad news is I can’t tell you why. It would spoil the story. Suffice it to say Cammie is still in danger and is putting all her friends, family and the spy boy, Zach, at risk.

The Reading Stack has also reviewed Ally Carter’s I’d Tell You I Love You but then I’d Have to Kill You, Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy, Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover and Heist Society. Heist Society has been long listed for a 2010 Inky.

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Heist Society

by Ally Carter

Hachette Australia. Young Adult, Crime. Paperback rrp $16.99

You have probably watched or read stories of mastermind thieves. Even ads reinforce the illusion of the glamorous thief doing back flips over infra-red security alarms. Heist Society is just like these movies, advertisements and books except in this case the very well-established thieves and masterminds are all teenagers. Too young to vote or legally drink but old enough to crack high powered security codes.

Katarina Bishop’s father is a well known thief. When five paintings go missing, all the clues mistakenly point to him. Kat is the only person who can save him from a powerful mobster intent on retribution. Except she has pulled her biggest scam ever and now attends one of the best boarding schools in the country. She has turned her back on the life of a professional thief.

Then Hal, a very wealthy young man and also Kat’s ex-partner in crime ensures that Kat is politely asked to leave the school and the new life she was happily settling into.

With the help of Hal and his vast family fortune, Kat sets out to save her father, her friends and herself; and return the priceless art collection to its rightful owner. Only one problem – she has two weeks to find the collection, steal them back without getting caught and get her father out of jail. Something even a criminal mastermind would normally spend months planning.

Can she do it?

Fans of Carter’s Gallagher Girl series, will not be disappointed in this wonderful book of intrigue and chase. Even before Heist Society was published the film rights were bought by Warner Bros. I will see you in the front row of the cinema!

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