by Ally Carter
ages: 12+
First sentence: “I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear.”
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This is fluff. There’s no beating around the bush on that one. Pure, unadulterated fluff. In fact, I’m not sure it can get much fluffier than this.

Cammie goes to an all-girls school. One for exceptional girls. Though the general public doesn’t know how exceptional: The Gallagher Academy girls are training to be spies. Which means they are not your normal, average, run-of-the-mill girls. What happens, then, when one of these girls (well, Cammie, specifically) meets an average, everyday boy and kind of falls for him? Well, for starters, she can’t let him know who she really is, which creates all sorts of problems.

As far as fluff goes, it’s fun fluff. It didn’t really grip me, and it wasn’t as fun as Heist Society, which was more complex and exciting, but it as far as straightforward spy/romance books go, it held its own. The characters were fun, the asides were amusing, and Ghallager Academy itself was a fascinating place. I wasn’t head over heels in love with the book by the end, but M says the second book in the series is better, so I’ll probably give that a try. Eventually.