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I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You, by Ally Carter



Imagine going to an all girls school in the middle of no-where by a small town. You have your best friends you have had since you can remember, everyone wearing the same uniform, and your Covert Operations class that teaches you to be a spy. The school I speak of is Gallagher Academy in the book, I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You, by Ally Carter. I liked this book for many reasons, it has colorful characters, hilarious situations yet serious ones, and never lets you put it down (not very good for when you are doing homework). The descriptions are short but are interesting and give you a Perfect image of your surroundings, and even how you feel. I would never know what it would have been like for Camie, the main character, in her situation as she secertly tries to live a second life as a “normal” girl instead of the girl no body is supposed to know that exists. The book take place in our modern era. Camie has the nickname of “the chameleon”, she has the face you can see a hundred times but never recognize, a person you can never really notice, an existence of no importance. She has her best friends, Liz and Bex. Liz is the ideal student with note cards for everything and is safer in a lab somewhere then in the field. Bex is a girl that makes rules optional and lets no one beat her down, verbally and physically. This book makes you thankful for your identity, compared to those who can never be known. It just goes to show that even girls that know how to kill you with pretty much anything can be just normal every day people too. My only critique for the book is that it was written a little immature for the age group this book belongs to, but I guess it was supposed to be written by a teenaged girl so I guess it gives it a bit more realistic.