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3.38 AVERAGE


freaky...

You know that series you become unduly obsessed with when your young? They're usually books no one else have heard of. They aren't available at the library. But you love them with the fiery passion of a cult leader, and you spend the next three months of sixth grade fruitlessly trying o get others to read these books.

The was the Spy High series for me. They're young adult books that are accessible to children as young as fourth grade but are interesting enough for Freshmen to read. The characters are appealing, layered, and flawed (I always liked Eddie. Don't ask why) The writing is intense and powerful. Overall, a great series for any boy or tomboy who claims they don't like reading. The one drawback is, outside the Internet, they're incredibly hard to find.

With the way this book started out, I wasn't sure if it was going to be a 3 star read or a 3.5 star read. I liked the storyline, but in the first chapter I didn't like ANY of the main characters at all... It took learning their backstories for me to actually be interested in them, but thankfully that happened within the next few chapters.

I am still confused on how old they are though... I think I read early on in the book that they were around 14 or 15, but I really hope they were older with how they were talking about relationships and everything. They honestly reminded me of 16 or 17 year olds.

I do like that they didn't reveal everything in this book and gave me a reason to want to read the second book eventually (even though there were a lot of typos), but I could still go back and forth on whether this was a 3.5 or a 4 star now.

Entertaining but it definitely has it's eye-rolly moments. It did pick up action wise, towards the end of the book, but for a book with less than 200 pages, this took me way too long to finish. Some happenings at the very end of the book was very unnecessary in my opinion, and to end the book with that as one of the last things on my mind, ugh.

I enjoyed the fact that Bond Team had some diversity with one African American and one Chinese American in their ranks. Several of them were also from different social statuses. I also enjoyed meeting the different members and seeing how they were selected. The very first parts of the book were probably my favorites to be honest.

I will be reading on to the next one eventually, as there was some foreshadowing to something that I think will be interesting to see unfold.

reread.

Meh. Was ok after a bad/slow start. Narrator isn't enjoyable, story was dullish.