Only the Good Spy Young

JJJ

My View:   Re-read my coverage of Cover, and you'll know I was really looking forward to this book. Unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed. Why?

• The relationships and characters I loved are gone.
• This no longer felt like a girly, fun, teen love story. There are no boyfriends, gossip has disappeared, and typical girl drama is MIA.
• You stop believing Cammie, and when you stop trusting your main character, it's almost always a sure-fire sign that a series is in decline. When major things happen, people change. We see huge proof of that in Harry Potter when Sirius and Dumbledore die. Harry's life changes, and so do the books. But Cammie's change makes this book, for the first time, really impersonal, too intense, and, for me, boring.

I think it needed more of that girly feel the first ones had and needs to feel less like the CoveOps report it's supposed to be. The book's suspense has changed from butterflies-in-your-stomach suspense to bland spy story stuff. If Carter wants to keep this fan, she needs to remember that the books were about an average girl with a very above-average education knowing the things she needs to know to be a spy and needing to learn the things she needs to know to be a teenage girl. If she can fulfill that order with the fifth book, I'll be back on board!

Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_the_Good_Spy_Young

Link: http://www.allycarter.com/books/only-good-spy-young/synopsis

General Information:

Method of Reading:	Personally owned hardcover novel, 265 pages
Dates of Reading:	July 10, 2010-July 11, 2010
Author:	Ally Carter
Publication Year:	2010
Recommended To:	Anyone who really enjoyed the rest of the series and is dedicated to continued reading.
Quotes:	"Number of secret passageways I found that were actually still working: 1 (But it only went to the kitchen.)    Number of cookies swiped while in the kitchen: 1 (Oh, okay, 3−but they were really little cookies.)" (107).
Movie?	As always, we'll have to wait and see if the first three do any good. This could make the least chick-flick-y, but most action-packed of the book adaptations, though. Hopefully a better movie than book, on-par with the rest of the series.

Always,
Your Bibliomaniac


Bibliographic info:

• Carter, Ally. Only the Good Spy Young. New York: Disney/Hyperion for Children, 2010. Print.
• Tumblr. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 July 2013.