Hey Addicts! I'm back for another review and this time it's of a book I LOVE! I think it's the first book I've given a 5 star to here on Miss Little Book Addicts House of Books. Aint it grand!
Kari
plunges into the world of espionage on a mission to save her parents while
trying to impress the guy she’s been in love with forever.
When
sixteen-year-old Kari’s dad sends her an unexpected text, she and her brother
immediately go into hiding. Because when your parents are superspies and your dad
declares a Code Black, it can only mean something bad. Very bad.
Kari
soon discovers that her parents have been disavowed and declared traitors, and
she’s determined to clear their names. Breaking into the Agency seems like a
reasonable plan, especially with the help of a team that includes her longtime
crush, Luke, as well as her two best friends—an expert hacker with attitude and
a master martial artist—and Luke’s popular, vindictive twin sister. Oh, and a
new guy, who’s as cute as he is complicated..
I
read this book about a month ago now. I was jonsing for a good YA spy book and in
the span of five days I read four different spy books. Sad to say out of the
four, Two Lies and a Spy was the only one that left me feeling like I had to
have the second book RIGHT NOW!
I
mean OMG what a fab book. There was everything you could want: fast paced plot,
edge of the seat griping action, more that enough mystery and plot twists I
wouldn’t have expected. PLUS two very hot guys. One that Kari had been crushing
on for ages, Luke, and another foreign boy, Evan, that drives her mad and is
always turning up at the most inopportune times and when he’s not really wanted, for Kari at least.
Kari
is the main hero who is well developed and is a character that I related too almost instantly! (All the characters were actually really well developed, even the annoying characters. Kari is the daughter of two spies working for the CIA. She is at
her high school when things go bad and she gets a distress text from her
parents. Cleverly she plans to ditch but ends up having to escape the school
through the window of the girls bathroom because said foreign hottie, Evan, was
hovering like a creeper stalker. Once free she immediately flees to get her
younger, genius brother Charlie, so they can flee with their parents. And that’s
where things go really bad!
P.S. Charlie is the coolest 7 year old little brother in history!
The
fast paced spyjinx that follow were wonderfully executed by out author Kat
Carlton, it was like I could see it all clear as a TV show. And when a book can
make me see and feel what the characters are experiencing is beyond great! I
wish I could find more books that would the same for me!
Back
on track……Kari can't prove her parents innocence, and find out what the government have done to them, by
Like
I said the action in this book is amazing, well done with just the right amount
of reality and overt he top spyness to be better than the average YA spy book.
I won’t give away the rest of the plot, but wham-bam there are two twists I
didn’t see coming and they were what really hooked me on this series. Please
release the second one…like…NOW.
There
was only one thing I can say I didn’t really like, and that was how Luke suddenly started showing his feelings for Kari, all at once without much lead
up, and the romance between Rita and Kale. I would have liked to see that
instead of getting one or two glimpses then being told about it later on.
But considering this is the worst thing I can say about this book...I can deal. I just hope in book 2 we get to see more of what we missed with Rita and Kale. Two Lies and a Spy ended with a lot of plot lines neatly tied off, but with enough of a cliffhanger to set up what promises to be an amazing and well worth the time and money series! Fans of Ally Carter will dive into this book head first and float along side the few other great YA spy books/series that are out there for us.
As always, feel free to drop me or MLBA a comment or tweet or email, whatever, if you want to have a fun discussion or if you don't agree with my opinion of this book!
That's it from me this time! Catch you Addicts later!
~DynoMoon
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