Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission-falling in love.'
Read this series, you will not regret it.
The Gallagher Girls Series by Ally Carter
My Rating- 5 Stars
Genre- Romance, spy
Books- I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You, Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy, Only The Good Spy Young, Out of Sight Out of Time, United We Spy
This review is mainly going to be about books 2-6 of this series as those are the ones which I have just finished binge reading. When I read the first book about 2 years ago, I wasn't that taken by it, it didn't grab my attention and I found it a bit too middle grade for my liking. But when I saw the second book in the series at a really good price a couple of months ago, I thought I would give it another go as my best friend absolutely loves this series. That was possibly the best decision I have ever made... (I can't decide if I'm exaggerating or not)
Over the last two weeks or so, this series has been the only thing I have read. I quickly became so obsessed and engrossed in the story, the characters, the romance, everything is absolutely on point. About halfway through the second book I went straight to Amazon and ordered the next two books in the series because I knew I would need them. Now I have finished the whole series and I'm basically in mourning, they were just so good.
I wish I was a Gallagher Girl, it is literally the coolest concept and these girls are just a family. Cammie can speak like 14 different languages and can break out of high security prisons, she is literally one the most kick ass characters I have ever come across.
This series is not the most intelligent, incredible one you will ever read. Its light hearted and its fun, but it didn't need to be any more than that in my opinion- I was addicted and never bored. Probably the best thing about these novels is that they just have so much heart, I can't even begin to describe how lovable every character is and how upset I am that I am finished with their story.
But the thing is, its light hearted and fun, but there is so much emotion in every page. Especially book five, it just felt so raw and real. Its safe to say that I would seriously recommend this series, every book is just such an adventure and I know that I will end up re-reading the books all the time. But right now I am going to go into some spoilers from the whole series, so if you haven't read these books yet then I would say to just do it, you will not regret reading these!
Read no further if you haven't read the books
I would like to start this spoiler section by just talking about Zach. I just love Zach way too much and its kind of problematic. Cammie and Zach have become one of my number 1 OTPs of all time and the two of them together is just perfection. Ally Carter managed to perfectly develop their romance so that it wasn't too rushed and it didn't drag, it was just right. Every single book had me swooning over the two, I'm way too sad that I won't be getting more of them. I could probably do a whole post just talking about them but I should probably talk about other things as well.
It feels so long ago that I was reading book two, the way this story develops is absolutely amazing and so much happens in what feels like such a short time. These books aren't huge, but so much happens and I love that, there is constantly action and I was never bored.
This cast of characters made me so happy, I love that even Cammie's Mum got her happy ending with Mr Solomon, even though its a little odd because its her dead husband's best friend, but hey who's judging. Also Townsend and Abby made me way too happy, I would read a book about those two. Bex, Liz and Macey were all so unique and had such different personalities. Sometimes when the main character has more than one best friend in a book, their personalities can just blend together and there isn't really much point. But Cammie's friends were all so different that you could tell who was saying something without even looking. Ally Carter just seems to know her characters so well and I love that.
We had our fair share of plot twists in this series, the plot was always going off in different directions yet it didn't really feel that way, it just felt like you were on the journey with Cammie. Something that is fresh in my mind because it happened towards the end of the sixth book is the fact that Townsend is Zach's father, I seriously did not see it coming, not even a little bit. I feel like it would have been nice to have a little bit of closure in that respect, we found out about that particular twist and then there wasn't really much more.
I have to talk about the blowing up of the Gallagher Academy because it was a pretty dramatic moment. I never expected it and I'm really sad, it was Cammie's home so it was pretty heart breaking. Catherine was the absolute worst, I felt so bad for Zach and that he had to be associated with her.
Out Of Sight, Out of Time was possibly my favourite of the series, it felt like there was such a huge change of tone in that book. I loved how much deeper the story became and it felt so much richer, every page was filled with excitement. This was the longest book of the series but it felt like it went the quickest, I absolutely devoured it and I will be re-reading it soon to be honest.
And now this series has left me with a huge book hangover. It feels like I have gone on such a journey with these characters and I just wish it could go on forever. Now that I don't have Gallagher Girls to read I don't really know what to do with my spare time. I hope you enjoyed this review even though it is basically just me gushing. I am definitely going to be picking up more from Ally Carter and I cannot wait to see what else she can do. Thank you for reading this review and I will see you again very soon with another post,
-Darcy
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