I'd Tell You I Love You but Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter Book Review

love you but then I'd have to kill you by Ally Carter

Modern girls are caught in a bind: how can they have a social life yet still be talented, intelligent, and athletically amazing, all at once? This dilemma is starkly illustrated in Ally Carter's I'd tell you I love you but then I'd have to kill you. The book is set in the Gallagher School for Girls, a boarding 'spy school' modeled on Harry Potter's Hogwarts for young wizards The heroine Cammie (alias 'the Chameleon') can speak fourteen languages and engage in covert operations (including making herself invisible) but has no idea how to talk to a 'normal' boy she likes. The book stresses that the support of your fellow girls is the only way to navigate the treacherous waters of female adolescence.Throughout the book, Cammie's best friends support her, even during the strangest aspects of 'spy school.' The first example of this can be seen in the fact that although they are accomplished spies themselves, Bex and Macey always make her feel like a regular girl, whether they are giggling in the dining hall with her or getting her out of bed on time for class. A second example of this is when Cammie develops a crush on Josh, an ordinary boy, they help her sneak out of the school so she can balance her super-secret spy studies with hanging out with her ordinary 'crush.'….....