Waiting on Wednesday (198) Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, created by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week I'm waiting on:

Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter

Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president's son, sometimes life has other plans. Before she knows it, Maddie's dad is dragging her to a cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.

No phone.
No Internet.
And not a single word from Logan.

Maddie tells herself it's okay. After all, she's the most popular girl for twenty miles in any direction. (She’s also the only girl for twenty miles in any direction.) She has wood to cut and weapons to bedazzle. Her life is full.
Until Logan shows up six years later . . .
And Maddie wants to kill him.

But before that can happen, an assailant appears out of nowhere, knocking Maddie off a cliff and dragging Logan to some unknown fate. Maddie knows she could turn back- and get help. But the weather is turning and the terrain will only get more treacherous, the animals more deadly.

Maddie still really wants to kill Logan. 

But she has to save him first. (Blurb via Goodreads)

Expected publication: March 27, 2018

What are you waiting on?

Waiting on Wednesday (72) All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) by Ally Carter

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, created by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week I'm waiting on: 

All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) by Ally Carter

A new series of global proportions -- from master of intrigue, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Ally Carter.

This exciting new series from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Ally Carter focuses on Grace, who 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. (Blurb via Goodreads)

Expected publication: January 27, 2015

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{YA Review} I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

{YA Review} I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school-that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real "pavement artist"-but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?

Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission-falling in love.(Blurb via Goodreads)

{Details} Hardcover, 284 pages, Published May 1st 2006 by Disney-Hyperion (first published April 1st 2006), Source: library

{Rating} 4/5

{Review} Where was the Gallagher Academy when I was 15? I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is a fun, charming, adorable story of Cammie, a sophomore at the very special Gallagher Academy, navigating her first relationship while training to be a spy.

Cammie is smart, gifted, a spylet? spyling? future spy, she speaks multiple languages, can kick butt in P&E (protection and enforcement), all around awesome, but she doesn't speak boy. She's actually completely clueless about all things boy.

"All these years I'd though being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part." (Carter, 144)

During a school assignment she meets Josh. He sees her. No one sees her, something that makes her such a good pavement artist (a tail) but he sees her. It's endlessly amusing as these brilliant girls (an awesome supporting cast of friends) try to help Cammie along, creating a complicated background to keep Josh in the dark about the real Cammie, performing surveillance and analyzing every interaction.

There are other storylines, the covert ops course and the new professor Solomon and his connection to her family, the mysteries surrounding Cammie's father, that I assume will continue into the other books in the series. We're left with a bit of a cliffhanger and I'm excited to see what happens next.

I enjoyed Carter's writing style. The story moved quickly and the language and voice immersed me in the teenage angst - in the best of ways.