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. ( )