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La Pire Mission De Ma Vie (2014)

by Robin Benway(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Romance

publisher

Nathan

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review 1: This book was recommended to me by my library. Well done, library. I will be trusting your recommendations from now on.About six months ago, I read the "Gallagher Girls" series, and was let down. While the idea was good, I had some issues. This book is what I had hoped that series would be. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and will be asking the library for the sequel first thing tomorrow.Maggie is a teenage safe cracking prodigy with spy parents, and she's on her first real undercover op. She needs to steal information from a magazine publisher before he writes an article exposing her family and other spies around the world. To do so, she poses as a regular teenager, befriends the publisher's son, and cracks open the safe at a Halloween party....naturally, things do... moren't go quite as smoothly after that.The only bad thing I can say is that the beginning of this novel is pretty slow and Maggie talks like a teenager (so her voice can be grating at first). Now you, like me, might ask yourself "should I keep going?" Let me tell you, you want to stick it out. It gets better and is totally worth it. The story is well plotted, moves along at a good pace, and each event actually has meaning in the overall scheme of things. (two thumbs up)The characters are first rate. Maggie's two new friends - Roux and Jesse - are each fully developed individuals you actually care about. Roux in particular was a gem - I loved that, in one tense moment, it is not Maggie-the-spy who saves the day, but Roux. (Well played, author.) Jesse is set up to be a character plate, but turns out to be a pretty deep individual that you sort of want to just cuddle (think of Jesse as Remus, without lycanthropy and with a shit ton of money). And Maggie's lies to the people in her life have real consequences - some that persist through the end of the story - which felt very real (despite the story being about a 16 year old safe cracking genius). This book also wins for making me laugh out loud in public. Multiple times. Once I nearly fell out of a chair. Did I mention that it's a good book? Yes. Read this book.
review 2: I mean...It wasn't bad. It was okay. Too much dialogue for my taste. I found myself skimming through the chapters where Maggie and Roux gossiped because it felt like snarky comments were just being thrown left and right for the hell of it. Skipped past the Angelo chapters as well, because he seemed to be written in for Maggie's convenience. And if only Maggie would stop saying the word 'spy'. We get it, Maggie. You're a spy, but not a very good one if you keep slipping up and saying it out loud.The nice thing about this book, though, is Maggie's relationship with Jesse Oliver. They weren't head over heels for each other instantly, and they weren't sickeningly sweet together either.Now, would I read the next book? Probably not. Would I read it if I was stuck in a long car trip and had nothing else on my tablet? Sure. less

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