I loved this book ( )

After reading this book I fell in love with Zach Goode. A hot, mysterious boy spy was an amazing twist. The fact that the Gallagher Girls discovered there were Blackthorne Boys I stopped breathing. This book was a amazing! I especially loved it when Cammie met Zach, and when they both ran into Josh and DeeDee. Another amazing book by Ally Carter! ( )

This book is the sequel to I'd Tell You I Love You but I'd Have to Kill You. It is set at a school for spies that has secret chambers under the school. Cammie is a genius but struggles with other aspects of her life, such as relationships. This book is like the Alex Rider series books (by Anthony Horowitz), but about a teen spy who is a girl instead of a boy. ( )

Reviewed by Cana Rensberger for TeensReadToo.com

Cameron Morgan attends the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women where, unknown to the outside world, she is training to be a spy. She first stole our hearts in Ally Carter's I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU. Ms. Carter's second novel, CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY, is a fast-paced Gallagher Girls sequel that you won't be able to put down.

In the first novel, Cammie falls for Josh, a regular boy from the village who crashes her final exam. CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY begins as Cammie is debriefed about her ex-boyfriend, aka, The Subject. She wonders if he even remembers her, if she'll ever see him again, or if she even wants to. She promises her mother, the headmistress of Gallagher, that she's finished with lying and sneaking around, unless under cover, of course, and that she'll never let a boy compromise her judgment again. Ready to focus on her classes, it's an easy promise to make. But it's not long before Cammie realizes how difficult that promise will be to keep.

She overhears her mother tell her Covert Operations teacher, "Cammie doesn't know anything." They discuss something called Blackthorne. Her mother tells the girls of the academy that the East Wing is closed due to contamination by fumes from the chemistry labs. But Cammie knows there's no way that's possible. "There is no ventilation access from the chem labs to the East Wing," she says.

Cammie and her friends are forced to launch their own covert operation to discover more about the fifteen male spies who have moved in as guests of the academy. She wonders why she is continually paired with Zach, and how he knows so much about her and the secret passages within the academy. When the academy's security is breached, knowing who you can trust becomes a matter of life and death.

If you haven't read Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls novels, you are seriously missing out on a fabulous experience. CROSS YOUR HEART AND HOPE TO SPY was every bit as good as Ms. Carter's first Gallagher Girls novel. Her third book, DON'T JUDGE A GIRL BY HER COVER, is due to be released in June. I'm putting in a Pre-Order and hoping that I'll see these books on the big screen. ( )

(spoilers)
This had less of the spying and more of the relationships that the first book in the series. I was intrigued by the central mystery, but I felt let down by the ending. Worse than a dream sequence - it was all a class exercise. If the teacher who once went to Blackthorn had been the villain of the piece, that would have been awesome! And the reason the boy's school is the 'stepson nobody talks about'' is never revealed. And for Cammie's apparent fame might be a bit of a problem in her intended career, no?
Also, the accents I ignored while reading the first book were irritating in the audio book - no fault of the actor, they were just a bit trop. But still, I was keen to see what happened to Cammie, her mother, and even Zac. ( )