I did like this book but it def feel flat for me. I really enjoyed the school setting and the characters training to be spies. But i really had a hard time with such a focus on the romance being the major force in this girl life. I wanted the story to move past it faster and it did not. I heard the series gets better and I def want to cont. reading soon. The characters were not as compelling as i wanted them to be. But overall it was fun read. ( )

I did like this book but it def feel flat for me. I really enjoyed the school setting and the characters training to be spies. But i really had a hard time with such a focus on the romance being the major force in this girl life. I wanted the story to move past it faster and it did not. I heard the series gets better and I def want to cont. reading soon. The characters were not as compelling as i wanted them to be. But overall it was fun read. ( )

Mildly amusing to the adult listerner/reader but this book's general appeal will be strictly in its target audience of teenaged girls IMO. The juxtaposition of typical teen angst over family, friends, and boys (fairly well done) with secret spy training school didn't work for me.

I also found Renée Raudman's narration to be a bit irritating in places, although I suspect that is due to the fine job she did sounding like teenagers! ( )

I love this SERIES. The first is okay.. not the best but okay. The others get better and she meets Zach. Who is also a spy but i wont say much more. This book isn’t for everyone but i love this series. ( )

SUMMARY: Cammie Morgan is a second-generation Gallagher Girl, and by her sophomore year she’s already fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways (one of which involves a piece of uncooked spaghetti). But the one thing the Gallagher Academy hasn’t prepared her for is what to do when she falls for a boy who thinks she’s an ordinary girl.

COMMENTS: Cammie’s parents were spies and now she is training to be one as well. However, she has some doubts when faced with the fate of her father who died during a mission. But spying is in her blood and she is very good at being unobserved. Maybe that is why she takes chances when she sneaks out of the heavily guarded school gates to experience a normal relationship with a boy from the nearby town. The only problem is Josh thinks she is a normal girl and not one of the Gallagher Girls that is detested by the townfolk. The book has a lot of action, strong female characters, and is told with lots of humor. A great start to a fascinating and intriguing series.

Update 2019 - browsing library shelves I came across this book that I really like - the cover stated "with declassified new chapter inside" which was the epilogue- which I'm not sure if I should have read it - I'm a romantic and this took all the wondering about what happened afterwords and all the romance came crashing down. With the instigation of the memory erase tea, Josh no longer remembers anything about the Gallagher Academy and his judgement about its occupants is hostile, not very Josh like. And this doesn't ring totally true because we do find out in book two that he does remember who Cammie is but how much more about their time together and why they parted is not shared with the reader. However, the declassified chapter did provide a foreshadowing of what will take place in the second installment.

This is an awesome series with strong female characters - there is puppy love and infatuation but no sex, there is no strong language, a little violence (after all it is an adventure spy novel) but no blood and guts. So even though it is categorized as a teen book, younger girls (even mature 5th graders) could and should read it.

Even though Cammie is the main character, my favorite character in this installment is Macey. ( )

Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real "pavement artist"—but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?

Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission—falling in love. ( )

Cammie, Bex and Liz are not your typical sophomores - they're operatives, yep, teenage spies. They go to the very exclusive Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Women, a school for geniuses training in espionage. Cammie just wants to be normal, though, and when she goes into town on a training mission and meets a boy her own age, she gets that chance. She just has to evade all of her teachers (all ex-spies themselves) and sneak out of the boarding school to meet him, but hey - what could go wrong?

I loved this book because it was just a lot of fun! The girls were likable, and Josh was adorable. His friend, not so much, but he was barely there so that was fine. The story moved along at a fast pace and again, was so much fun that it was a really quick read. I look forward to reading the rest of the series to see where it leads.

Highly recommended to YA readers who like a little fun with their spy stories.

5/5 stars.

I received a copy of this book free of charge in exchange for my honest opinion. ( )

I'm a sucker for a page-turning, chicky kind of novel. Read it in a couple of hours. Laughed out loud a couple of times, and cried at the end. That's my kind of book. ( )

Omg this book. Don't read this review just go and read the book, it's absolutely wonderful ( )

Ally Carter's Gallagher Girl series are fun reads filled with action, danger, and success.

If you’re a brilliant 15-year-old girl, why be a cheerleader when you can be a spy? Cammie Morgan is enrolled in Gallagher Academy, a secret CIA school whose 7th-10th-grade girls are fluent in 14 different languages and take classes in covert operations. Narrator Renée Raudman is as gifted as any Gallagher girl as she jumps into their boots to romp through the raucous yet surprisingly moving adventures of Cammie, tough-Brit Bex, and Southern-belle Liz. How Cammie and crew pass a dangerous “final exam” and how Cammie balances spying and her romance with a “normal” guy make for an offbeat, imaginative title. ( )

Cammie Morgan goes to a special school called the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, an all girls school that teaches the skills necessary to create spies. Cammie is known as The Chameleon because of her ability to blend into any environment, making her difficult to detect. When on her first covert op, she is spotted by a local boy named Josh, Cammie fears that he might be an operative planted in the town to infiltrate her school. She and her friends go on a covert operation of their own to find out more about Josh, but the more Cammie learns, the more she realizes that she likes him more than she should.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is the first book in the Gallagher Girls series and does a good job of introducing the Gallagher Academy and the characters that will inhabit the series. Cammie's character is well developed as the story's protagonist and we learn some information about her roommates and teachers who are little more than supporting characters in this story. Some of the incidents and dialogue are a little over the top, which is somewhat understandable since the target audience is middle grade and young adult. However, the death of Cammie's father adds a layer of seriousness to this fun story filled with laugh out loud humor and quirky characters. Overall, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is an enjoyable beginning to a promising series. ( )

I got through most of the second part, but just couldn't take the narrator's voice any more. Her "high school girl" voice (i.e., the main character) is faintly insipid, but her "high school boy" voice sounds like Rudolph with the clay covering his nose. Just can't do it.

3*
This book didn't age very well. I like the concept of the plot but wish that it had a little more depth to it. I started reading it thinking that it would be considered young adult, but after finishing it, I feel like this would be more appropriate for middle grade. I think I would have loved to read a story about spies back when I was in middle school during the time when I was obsessed with Spy Kids. I wish the main conflict of the book had had something more to do with spying/murder/mystery, but unfortunately there was a weak love story as the main conflict. While I am slightly interested to know what happens next in this series about the Gallagher Girls I don't think I'll be picking the next book in the series up (Seriously? An epilogue to make you pick up the next book isn't necessarily the best way to go about it). I think my middle school and very early high school self would have rated this book much more highly, but I had to give it 3*.
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It is a funny book with an interesting theme. It is a high-school drama filled book that I can read and enjoy without the need to use my brain a whole lot. It is a relatively straightforward plot with plenty of humor and cool gadgets, as it is a spy boarding school. This book looks after themselves, not something you see in YA literature.
I might continue with this series if I feel a light YA reading with some action. I borrowed the book from the library, and I think I saw the second one there and I can borrow it. ( )

Gallagher Girl Series #1 - spy school for girls. Good enough to bother finishing, but not my thing. Suitable for teenage girls. ( )

what a cute idea for a middle school/high school read. Who doesn't wish to be a spy? ( )

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Cute, fun, quick read. Although there's ten too many mentions of the fact that Cammie goes to a school for spies. ( )

This book is about Cameron (Cammie) Morgan. She goes to a school for spies with her friends Bex and Liz. In one of her classes she is training to be a pavement artist. They go outside the school to practice and that is where she meets Josh. They talk and he asks to see her again. So she has to sneak out of a spy school which is harder than it sounds. They end up doing a bunch of crazy things like going through his trash. Eventually they decide that it is to hard to go out with each other and they break up.

This book was pretty good. I enjoyed the role that the protagonist had. I think that if it didn't take place at a spy school then the book wouldn't work very well. I also liked how the book was set up so that the characters seemed perfect at what they did but were pretty bad at everything else. It kind of reminded me of Harry Potter. It is a very easy quick read that's good for people who have to do Librarything for there ELA teacher. ( )

This book, I’d Tell You I Love You, but then I’d Have to Kill You is about a girl named Cammie who attends an all-girls spy school, The Gallagher AcademyCammies mother is the headmistress of that school. She is a Sophmore so she finally gets to take a class which allows her to go on real missions. The school is closed off from the rest of the town. This means the townspeople are also separated from the Gallagher Girls, and of course that starts rumors.

On Cammie's first mission, she and her friends went downtown for their first mission. They got distracted and ended up digging through ‘fascinating’ trash. The ower of the trash, a boy their age (16 years old) came out, so the girls ran away because they didn't want to get caught on their spy mission.

On other missions, Cammie ran into the same boy, (Josh) numerous times. They both started to like one another, even though she isn’t allowed to interact, or even talk to the townspeople. She had to keep this a secret, which leads to her blowing him off an ignoring him.

Josh became very suspicious of Cammie’s behavior so he followed her to school one day. He and his friends catch her walking out of her school in her uniform and Josh gets very mad. Cammie is upset so she tells her mom, but she already knows about josh because Cammie’s mother saw them both in the town. Ater advice is given to Cammie by her mother, Cammie explains everything to josh and everything is better between Josh and Cammie, and Cammie and her Mom even got closer.

My opinion on this book: I enjoyed reading this book. I liked it because when I read it it felt like I was reading all of the school gossip (which I don’t hear often). I’m glad I read this, but I wouldn’t read this again because It was a little too imaginative in my opinion (because of all of the spy talk). If you are a reader that likes imaginative fiction then I think this would be the perfect book for you! ( )

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If you are looking for a refreshing Young-Adult read, with college unlike any other - this is the perfect book for you! I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is the first book from the Gallagher Girl series, where we meet girls that go to a school for spies, and nobody except them, knows it.

The Gallagher Academy is a typical all-girls-school, except, instead of normal subjects, they learn advanced martial arts and chemical warfare studies, they have exams where they need to spy, or go unnoticed, or steal.

We meet Cammie Morgan, who happens to be the headmistress's daughter, and when she goes on a mission and gets noticed by a boy - everything changes and her life is suddenly everything but normal. She knows how to kill a man in seven different ways, and she can speak fourteen languages, but when a cute boy comes and says hi - she is definitely not trained for that. What's worst - he thinks she's just an ordinary girl, and she is falling in love with him.

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 who can never know the truth about her? Cammie may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's beginning her most dangerous mission - falling in love.



I loved the writing style, and I loved something new and refreshing - it is a plot that I haven't read before, and I really enjoyed it. Sometimes when it felt a bit childish, I would remember I am not thirteen anymore, but even now at twenty-one, I got lost into this silly world of spy girls and the drama and love life of Cammie.

I liked Cammie - she is the type of girl that you would love to have as a friend, because she always makes you giggle with her silly comments. I also liked how brave and honest she was - not always honest though… Sometimes, she was too whiney for her own good, and making little things out of nothing, but then again, all teens kind of do that all the time, so it's acceptable.

I loved her friends - they were such a team, and always covering their backs. I loved how, even despite all their differences, they manages to fit right in and have their own impact to the group friendship.

Overall, quite an enjoyable read and I would definitely recommend it to you guys, if you love anything YA, or fantasy, or spy girls, or college related. I enjoyed this book, and I wish I read it way sooner. I can't wait to read the rest of the series as well.

Thank you to my friend and author, Michael Kott, that send me this book after recommending it to me, as Ally Carter is one of his favourite authors, and he enjoyed this book as well. Check out his book Piasa - it is amazing!

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How cute is this book? Super-spy in training Cammie meets a "regular" boy and she and her friends set out to figure him out and plan dates, Gallagher Girl style.

I honestly like the Gallagher Girls and their teachers. I also like spy-fi and special boarding schools so you knew I'd like this. A fun beginning to a fun series. ( )

I started reading this with the expectation that I would not finish it but it turned out way more fun than I thought it would be. Yes, it's silly and over the top but I found it to be original and very entertaining. I am definitely going to read the next book in the series. ( )

If you are looking for a refreshing Young-Adult read, with college unlike any other - this is the perfect book for you. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is the first book from the Gallagher Girl series, where we meet girls that go to a school for spies, and nobody except them, knows it.

The Gallagher Academy is a typical all-girls-school, except, instead of normal subjects, they learn advanced martial arts and chemical warfare studies, they have exams where they need to spy, or go unnoticed, or steal.

We meet Cammie Morgan, who happens to be the headmistress's daughter, and when she goes on a mission and gets noticed by a boy - everything changes and her life is suddenly everything but normal. She knows how to kill a man in seven different ways, and she can speak fourteen languages, but when a cute boy comes and says hi - she is definitely not trained for that. What's worst - he thinks she's just an ordinary girl, and she is falling in love with him.

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 who can never know the truth about her? Cammie may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's beginning her most dangerous mission - falling in love.

I loved the writing style, and I loved something new and refreshing - it is a plot that I haven't read before, and I really enjoyed it. Sometimes when it felt a bit childish, I would remember I am not thirteen anymore, but even now at twenty-one, I got lost into this silly world of spy girls and the drama and love life of Cammie.

I liked Cammie - she is the type of girl that you would love to have as a friend, because she always makes you giggle with her silly comments. I also liked how brave and honest she was - not always honest though… Sometimes, she was too whiney for her own good, and making little things out of nothing, but then again, all teens kind of do that all the time, so it's acceptable.

I loved her friends - they were such a team, and always covering their backs. I loved how, even despite all their differences, they manages to fit right in and have their own impact to the group friendship.

Overall, quite an enjoyable read and I would definitely recommend it to you guys, if you love anything YA, or fantasy, or spy girls, or college related. I enjoyed this book, and I wish I read it way sooner. I can't wait to read the rest of the series as well.

Thank you to my friend and author, Michael Kott, that send me this book after recommending it to me, as Ally Carter is one of his favourite authors, and he enjoyed this book as well. Check out his book Piasa - it is amazing! ( )

I can't believe I have judged this book by the cover for so long and ended up loving everything about it when I gave it a chance. I loved Cammie and her friends. Her learning to be just a girl and not a spy. Cammie learned so much about herself and even had to make a choice. This was the best! ( )