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★★★★★

Review by Daria

“It is a new semester at the Gallagher School for Exceptional Young Women, and Cammie Morgan is eager to put the events of last semester behind her. After an intense CIA debriefing and interrogation, she’s ready to fulfil her promise to stop sneaking around. But then she overhears her mother and one of her teachers discussing Blackthorn. Cammie and her roommates have to know: what is Blackthorn, and does it have any connection to the east wing of the school suddenly being locked? Things are further complicated by the arrival of boys at the Gallagher school – boys who have the same training and education as them. Gallagher Girls are trained for complications, but can they remember everything they’ve been taught?”

Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy is the second great novel in The Gallagher Academy series. Even though I haven’t read the first book, I am sure that if it’s anything like this one, then it’s a great read. This novel really showed what life for a 16-year-old spy girl could be like: all the secrets, lying and spying. I thought that this book was very light and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I also found it a bit funny that at an academy for spy girls, they found translating boy’s behaviour one their biggest challenges.

Cammie was a spy girl who wasn’t afraid to take risks. I appreciated her ‘rebel’ nature because I thought it was a funny quality, especially when she had to crawl through walls that were covered in cobwebs. One of Cammie’s best friends, Macey, I don’t think was mentioned enough because I wanted to find out more and about her and her knowledge of boys. I would rate this book with 4 stars.