I'm super-behind on reviews, so let's start the New Year afresh. The usual information plus comments if I scribbled or remember any.

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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
by Ally Carter
236 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/YA/Romance

I started this book last night and finished it second period in class today--beautifully written with a strong voice, and gripping. This is the sequel to I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, but it also works as a standalone. It made the NYT ( Read more... )

Why do many literary novels have the subtitle, "A Novel"? It seems like a perfectly obvious and useless appellation.

Dropped by the library tonight and checked out three YA novels, two of which were shelf-grabs (the last is Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter, which is a NYT-bestseller and guaranteed comfort reading--I've already read the ( Read more... )

I had a veritable reading marathon this weekend! Two whole books. I actually wrote up three, but one of them isn't fit for posting... ahem.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (284 pages, hardcover): B+
A YA novel, but one that came highly recommended by an adult acquantaince. The story concerns a girl named Cammie ( Read more... )