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Book Review: All Fall Down by Ally Carter

Title:  All Fall Down Author:  Ally Carter Series:   Embassy Row, #1 Pages:   320 Publisher:  Orchard Books Date of Publication:  5th February, 2015 Source:  NetGalley for review* Synopsis from Goodreads: Grace can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row. Now, at age sixteen, she's come back to stay - in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death. In the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions, and must choose her friends and watch her foes carefully if she and the world are to be saved. My Thoughts: I am a huge fan of Ally Carter, as you probably know if you've been following me on Twitter and on the blog at all since last summer when I first read I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd H...

Book Review: Don't Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski

Title:  Don't Even Think About It Author:  Sarah Mlynowski Series:   n/a Pages:   304 Publisher:  Orchard Books Date of Publication:  1st May, 2014 Source:  For review from the publisher via netGalley Synopsis from Goodreads: This is the story of how we became freaks. It's how a group of I's became a we. When Class 10B got their flu shots, they expected some side effects. Maybe a sore arm. Maybe a headache. They definitely didn't expect to get telepathy. But suddenly they could hear what everyone was thinking. Their friends. Their teachers. Their parents. Now they all know that Tess has a crush on her best friend, Teddy. That Mackenzie cheated on Cooper. That Nurse Carmichael used to be a stripper. Some of them will thrive. Some of them will break. None of them will ever be the same. My Thoughts: I'd heard a lot of good things about this book from people who've read it on Twitter and Goodreads, so I was excited to get star...

Book Review: Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter

Title:  Uncommon Criminals Author:  Ally Carter Series:   Heist Society, #2 Pages:   302 Publisher:  Orchard Books Date of Publication:  5th July, 2012 Source:  Borrowed from library Synopsis from Goodreads: Katarina Bishop has worn a lot of labels in her short life: Friend. Niece. Daughter. Thief. But for the last two months she's simply been known as the girl who ran the crew that robbed the greatest museum in the world. That's why Kat isn't surprised when she's asked to steal the infamous Cleopatra Emerald so it can be returned to its rightful owners. There are only three problems. First, the gem hasn't been seen in public in thirty years. Second, since the fall of the Egyptian empire and the suicide of Cleopatra, no one who holds the emerald keeps it for long - and in Kat's world, history almost always repeats itself. But it's the third problem that makes Kat's crew the most nervous, and that is...the emerald is cursed. Kat mig...

Book Review: Heist Society by Ally Carter

Title:  Heist Society Author:  Ally Carter Series:  Heist Society #1 Pages:  304 Publisher:  Orchard Children's Books Date of Publication:  1st September 2011 Source:  Publisher* Synopsis from Goodreads: When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria...to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own--scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving "the life" for a normal life proves harder than she'd expected. Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring her back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have pulled this job...